Jun 03, 2025 06:26 PM IST

The graphics within the #Pakistani doc detailing #India’s drone strikes on May 8, 9 and 10 lists 7 areas not acknowledged as targets by #Indian officers

NEW DELHI: #India’s concentrating on of areas inside #Pakistan in the course of the 4 days of navy clashes final month was extra in depth than was beforehand identified, with a #Pakistan authorities doc acknowledging that #Indian drones struck areas starting from #Peshawar within the northwest to #Hyderabad within the south.

Security personnel cordon off a road close to the Rawalpindi cricket stadium after an alleged #Indian drone was shot down in Rawalpindi on May 8 (AFP FILE)

The doc on #Pakistan’s Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos, which was mounted in response to #India’s Operation Sindoor, lists at the very least seven areas focused by #Indian drone strikes that weren’t cited in official briefings by #Indian officers. The doc, which was shared with the #Pakistani media, largely focuses on what it describes as #India’s “unprovoked aggression”, though these got here within the wake of the Pahalgam terror assault of April 22 that killed 26 civilians.

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The graphics within the #Pakistani doc detailing #India’s drone strikes on May 8, 9 and 10 checklist seven areas — #Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Attock, Bahawalnagar, Gujrat and Jhang in Punjab province, and Chhor and #Hyderabad in Sindh province — that weren’t acknowledged as targets by #Indian officers at any briefings held throughout or after the hostilities.

The doc didn’t give particulars of what the #Indian drone strikes had focused at these seven areas.

HT had first reported on May 16 that #India’s drone strikes on May 8 focused the National Defence Complex (NDC) in Attock district, which builds transporter-erecter-launcher automobiles for missiles.

Bahawalnagar is house to a military cantonment, whereas Gujrat district has #Pakistan’s largest cantonment situated at Kharian. Shorkot cantonment is situated in Jhang district, adjoining to Rafiqui airbase that was additionally focused by #Indian missiles. The #Pakistan Army Desert Warfare School is headquartered in Chhor cantonment, and #Hyderabad too is house to a military cantonment.

High-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery from a number of non-public corporations has already revealed the injury inflicted by #India’s navy strikes on terrorist infrastructure at 9 areas in territories managed by #Pakistan on May 7, and the next missile assaults on eight airbases on May 10.

In the early hours of May 7, the #Indian Air Force (IAF) struck two terror websites at Markaz Subhanallah in Bahawalpur and Markaz Taiba close to Muridke, each in #Pakistan’s Punjab province, whereas the military hit targets at seven locations, together with Mehmoona Joya in Sialkot, Sawai Nala and Syed Na Bilal in Muzaffarabad, Gulpur and Abbas in Kotli, Barnala in Bhimber, and Sarjal.

The Markaz Subhanallah camp was the farthest goal for #Indian forces. Located round 100 km from the worldwide border, it’s the headquarters of the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and has been used for recruitment, indoctrinating and coaching terrorists.

Markaz Taiba is the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) based by Hafiz Saeed. Terrorists educated at this camp had been linked to many assaults in #India, together with the 2008 Mumbai assaults. Ajmal Kasab, the one terrorist captured alive on the time, acquired coaching right here and so did David Coleman Headley. It is situated 25 km inside #Pakistan.

During May 9-10, the IAF struck navy targets in Rafiqui, Murid, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur, Chunian, Pasrur, Sialkot, Skardu, Sargodha, Jacobabad, Bholari and Malir Cantt in Karachi.