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The Indian armed forces launched precision strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan and PoK to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack last month.
Operation Sindoor: India warns Pakistan against any misadventure (Photo: X)
Within hours of carrying out Operation Sindoor in Pakistan and PoKthe government on Wednesday warned the neighbouring country against resorting to any “misadventure” that may escalate the situation.
The government also made it clear that only the terrorist camps that have been used to plan and execute previous terror attacks and India and which were planning to further carry out similar attacks were targeted, and highlighted in no uncertain terms that no military establishments were targeted by the Indian forces.
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“No military establishment was targeted, and there are no reports of civilian casualties. It must be said that the Indian armed forces are fully prepared to respond to a Pakistani misadventure, if any, that will escalate the situation,” said Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, who was present at the joint press conference with Col Sofiya Qureshi, both of who represented the armed forces and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, representing the government.
The officer said that nine terror camps were targeted and successfully destroyed. “The locations were so selected to avoid damage to civilian infrastructures and loss of any civilian lives,” she said.
“Terror targets were chosen based on credible intelligence and their involvement in cross-border terrorism,” Col Qureshi informed.
India avenged the killings of 26 civilians in the Pahalgam terror attack with precision strikes deep inside Pakistan’s Punjab (4 targets) and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (5 targets), including headquarters of terror outfits JeM and LeT. At least 17 terrorists were reportedly killed in Indian strikes and over 60 were injured.
Notably, minutes before the government’s stern warning, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif had said that Islamabad is ready to refrain from any escalation if New Delhi “backs down”.
“This has been initiated by India. If India is ready to back down, they have taken the initiative, we have just responded. We have been saying this that we will never initiate anything hostile towards India. But if we are attacked, we will respond. If India backs down, we will definitely wrap up these things. But as long as we are under fire, we have to respond,” Asif told a news channel.
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Misri, who began the briefing on behalf of the government, exposed Pakistan’s hand behind the terror attacks in India and said that Lashkar-e-Taiba’s offshoot The Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the attack and the investigations into the Pahalgam terror attack have revealed the communication notes of terrorists “in and to Pakistan”.
“Our intelligence indicated that further attacks against India are impending. Thus, compulsion, both to deter and prevent and hence earlier this morning, India exercised its right to respond to deter such more cross-border terrorism… Our actions were measured and non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible. They focused on dismantling terrorists’ infrastructure,” he said.
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