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In response to the Pahalgam assaults, India carried out precision strikes on 9 terrorist websites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir below ‘Operation Sindoor’. The strikes come nearly two weeks after the barbaric terrorist assault in Pahalgam.
New Delhi:
The Indian Armed Forces carried out precision strikes at 1:44 am on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam assault through which 26 civilians had been killed on April 22.
India struck bases in Pakistan and PoK from the place terrorist assaults had been being deliberate and directed. A complete of 9 websites had been focused within the in a single day precision strikes below the codename ‘Operation Sindoor’.
India stated, “Our actions have been targeted, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani navy services have been focused. India has demonstrated appreciable restraint in number of targets and methodology of execution.” “We live as much as the dedication that these liable for this assault will likely be held accountable.”
Pakistan’s DG ISPR, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, stated India struck websites in Kotli, Muridke, Bahawalpur, and Muzaffarabad.
Muridke is the headquarters of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is run by Hafiz Saeed, and Bahalwapur in Pakistan’s Punjab province is the bottom of Jaish-e-Mohammad, an outfit run by Masood Azhar.
Later, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif confirmed that India carried out precision navy strikes and stated, “Pakistan has each proper to reply forcefully to this act of conflict imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given.”
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India didn’t point out the title of the websites it focused throughout ‘Operation Sindoor’.
The strikes come nearly two weeks after the barbaric terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, through which terrorists from Pakistan shot useless 26 civilians in a vacationer spot.
Learn extra: Operation Sindoor: What We Know About India’s Strike On Pak Terror Bases
“Justice Is Served, Jai Hind”
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh wrote “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” on his X deal with. Minutes after India introduced that it carried out the strikes, the Indian Military posted on X and stated, “Justice is served. Jai Hind.”
Justice is Served.
Jai Hind! pic.twitter.com/Aruatj6OfA
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) Could 6, 2025
In response to the strikes, Pakistan has opened artillery fireplace alongside the Line of Management within the Bhimber Gali within the Poonch-Rajauri space, the Indian Military stated. The troops are “responding appropriately in a calibrated method,” they added.
Pakistan once more violates the Ceasefire Settlement by firing Artillery in Bhimber Gali in Poonch- Rajauri space.#IndianArmy is responding appropriately in a caliberated method. pic.twitter.com/Bo7Cf8ISzn
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) Could 6, 2025
Sources advised NDTV that SCALP (Storm Shadow) cruise missiles had been used within the assaults. These missiles, developed collectively by France and Britain, are geared up with the Rafale fighters of the Indian Air Power. Sources added that, together with SCALP, Hammer Sensible Bombs had been additionally used within the strikes.
The Indian Embassy in america stated Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval spoke to his US counterpart and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the strikes, briefing them about India’s navy operation.
US President Donald Trump reacted to India’s navy motion in opposition to terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and stated the US knew one thing was going to occur and that he hoped “it ends in a short time”.
Flight Ops, NOTAM, Air Power’s Battle Sport
Flight operations have been impacted following the stress alongside the border. IndiGo, in a press release, advised passengers that “Attributable to altering airspace situations within the area”, operations have been impacted at Srinagar, Jammu, Amritsar, and operations are affected in Chandigarh and Dharamsala. IndiGo requested passengers to examine their flight standing.
The Srinagar airport has been closed, and no civilian flight will likely be working in the present day, sources within the Indian Air Power advised NDTV.
The Indian Air Power has deliberate a two-day navy drill in Rajasthan alongside the worldwide border with Pakistan. The drills or conflict video games will start at 9:30 pm in the present day and finish at 3 am on Friday. A NOTAM or discover to airmen has been issued, ceasing all flight operations over a big space of the Thar desert.
India points a NOTAM for a reasonably large air train alongside the southern part of its border with Pakistan
Date 07-08 Could 2025 pic.twitter.com/1TnccuRQ54— Damien Symon (@detresfa_) Could 6, 2025
The strikes come hours earlier than a deliberate safety mock drill throughout the nation for “efficient civil defence within the occasion of a hostile assault”. It’s deliberate in 244 districts, and it is the primary such drill being held since 1971, the yr through which each nations went to conflict and Pakistan was cut up into two and Bangladesh was shaped.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had vowed to take vengeance for the worst-ever assault in Jammu and Kashmir since Pulwama in 2019.
In 2016, India carried out precision surgical strikes on terror launch pads throughout the Line of Management in PoK, nearly 10 days after the Uri assaults through which 4 Jaish terrorists from Pakistan entered a brigade headquarters and killed 16 troopers.
On February 14, 2019, a vehicle-borne suicide bomber from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed focused a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF) in Pulwama, killing 40 troopers. India responded with power, and the Indian Air Power struck terror camps in Balakot, throughout the worldwide border in Pakistan. This was the primary time because the 1971 conflict, the IAF crossed the worldwide border for navy motion.
It was adopted by Pakistan scrambling jets, and in an aerial dogfight, the Air Power’s MiG-21, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan, shot down a superior US-made fourth-generation F-16 fighter plane.
Wing Commander Abhinandan was captured by Pakistan however was launched just a few days later.
First Diplomatic Measures, Then Navy Motion
The Prime Minister has chaired a number of conferences because the Pahalgam assault. Yesterday, hours earlier than the strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval. On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh for greater than half an hour amid hypothesis over how New Delhi would reply to the assault.
This assembly occurred a day after the Prime Minister met Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh. The Prime Minister later met the chiefs of the Military, Navy, and Air Power.
Earlier than taking navy motion in opposition to the perpetrators of the Pahalgam assault, India first took diplomatic measures in opposition to Pakistan by suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, which was ratified in 1960, together with revoking all visas granted to Pakistani nationals, shutting the Attari border, downsizing the diplomatic employees of Pakistan’s missions in India and shutting the airspace for all plane, together with navy, operated and leased by Pakistan.
Final night time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated the choice to place a freeze on the Indus water treaty that stopped the provision to Pakistan won’t be reversed, saying, “India’s water will likely be used for India’s pursuits”.
Talking at an ABP Community occasion this night, PM Modi stated, “Lately, there may be a whole lot of dialogue within the media about water… Earlier, even the water that was India’s proper was flowing in another country. Now, India’s water will move for India’s profit, it will likely be conserved for India’s profit, and it will likely be used for India’s progress”.
Pakistan threatened to carry the 1972 Simla Settlement in abeyance following India’s measures. The menace posed a query on the way forward for the Line of Management, which was established after the settlement was signed. In 2003, India and Pakistan signed a ceasefire settlement to ease tensions alongside the navy boundary, however Islamabad has repeatedly violated the settlement.
For the final 12 days, Pakistani troops have opened small arms fireplace alongside the LoC, and India has given a measured response to Pakistan’s repeated violations.