India Neutralises Pak Missiles Aimed At 15 Cities

New Delhi: Pakistan attempts late last night and early this morning to escalate tension with India by targeting military installations in 15 cities in the northern and western parts of the country – including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Gujarat – have been negated, the government said Thursday.

The government said Indian forces responded by targeting and neutralising Pakistani Air Defence Radars and systems in several locations, including Lahore, in response to Pak attempts to attack military facilities in Srinagar, Pathankot, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, and other locations.

Indian forces’ response, the government underlined this afternoon, was “in the same domain (and) with the same intensity” as the attacks launched by Pakistan.

Pak forces used drones and missiles that were disabled by India’s air defence systems.

Sources told news agency ANI, HARPY drones were used by India to destroy Pak air defences, while India then used the Russian-made S-400 defence system to shoot down missiles aimed at its cities.

Debris from the destroyed drones and missiles is being collected, the government said, and will add to the volume of evidence supporting India’s charges that Pakistan, or the Pak deep state, supports cross-border terrorism targeting India, whether by financial funding or military training.

Attempted military action against India comes a day after Indian armed forces’ carried out precision strikes at four terrorist camps in Pak and five in Pak-occupied Kashmir, or PoK.

Operation Sindoor as the strikes were codenamed, spanned a 25-minute period that began Wednesday morning at 1.05 am and included a barrage of 24 munitions – from HAMMER smart bombs to SCALP missiles – that destroyed terrorist groups’ HQs and training camps.

Over 100 terrorists were killed in the strikes, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said this afternoon.