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Operation Sindoor Highlights: Several airports in North India closed after strikes on Pakistan
Operation Sindoor highlights: The Indian Armed Forces carried out Operation Sindoor, targeting terror camps in PoK, and Pakistan. According to the government, nine locations were targeted, while Pakistan violated the ceasefire along the LoC with artillery fire.
Operation Sindoor highlights: In retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes early Wednesday on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, including Bahawalpur which is a stronghold of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terror outfit. What is Operation Sindoor? The military strikes were carried out under 'Operation Sindoor', the Indian Army said in a statement released at 1.44 am....Read More
"A little while ago, the Indian armed forces launched ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed," the Indian statement said.
"Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution," it said.
What happened in the Pahalgam attack?"
On April 22, in the Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, 26 civilians, mostly tourists, were gunned down by terrorists. Several others were injured as well. The terrorist attack was the deadliest to take place in the valley since 2019.
Pahalgam attack news updates
• Pakistani troops continued to violate the ceasefire agreement along several sectors of the Line of Control (LoC) and the international border in Jammu and Kashmir for the 12th consecutive night. Violations were reported across the LoC in areas opposite Kupwara, Baramulla, Poonch, Rajauri, Mendhar, Naushera, Sunderbani, and Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian Army said it responded to the violation “promptly and proportionately.
• Earlier on Monday, the Union home ministry ordered 244 districts categorised as civil defence areas to carry out mock drills on May 7. It suggested a list of measures to follow up to the village level amid ongoing developments post the April 22 Pahalgam attack.
• The order came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a series of high-level security review meetings in Delhi. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met him on Monday after the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, and the Navy Chief, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi also briefed him about the armed forces' operational preparedness.
• In Pakistan, after the military conducted its second missile test fire within two days, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that India could carry out a military strike at any moment along the Line of Control in Kashmir. “New Delhi will be given a befitting reply,” the minister told reporters in Islamabad.
• Also on Monday, Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir reportedly said that Pakistan will respond with “full military might” if its sovereignty or territorial integrity is threatened.
• Pakistan's parliament also passed a unanimous resolution against India, terming New Delhi's countermeasures against Islamabad in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack "a campaign" to malign the country's image.
• India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology Branch said that some social media influencers and pages in the country seem to be “working against the interest of the country.”
PinnedOperation Sindoor live updates: India hits 9 sites in Pak, PoK; Islamabad targets post along LoC
India carried out precision strikes on 'terrorist infrastructure' at nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in what it termed as 'Operation Sindoor'. The operation was in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians.
Hours later, Pakistan began targeting Indian posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in the early hours of Wednesday with heavy artillery shelling.
Since the April 22 terror attack at Baisaran, the worst strike on civilians in nearly two decades, Pakistan has consistently violated ceasefire along the LoC and the international border for 12 consecutive days. But Wednesday morning saw the first usage of heavy shelling along the de-facto border in these two weeks.
‘Operation Sindoor’ was consistenly monitored throughout the night by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meanwhile, Pakistan has said that it reserves its right to retaliate to Indian strikes at the ‘time and place of its own choosing’.
