India responds to Pakistan proportionately after Pakistan attempts on Indian military target in Northern and Western India having their drones and missiles were neutralized.
New Delhi May 8 (PIB/IANS): Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in Northern and Western India using drones and missiles. After neutralizing these, Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan. Indian response has been in the same domain with same intensity as Pakistan. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised.
According to a PIB Press release, “During the Press Briefing on Operation SINDOOR on 07 May 2025, India had called its response as focused, measured and non-escalatory. It was specifically mentioned that Pakistani military establishments had not been targeted. It was also reiterated that any attack on military targets in India will invite a suitable response.
On the night of 07-08 May 2025, Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in Northern and Western India including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and missiles. These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks.
Today (May 8) morning Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan. Indian response has been in the same domain with same intensity as Pakistan. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralized”.
The Press release further read: Pakistan has increased the intensity of its unprovoked firing across the Line of Control using Mortars and heavy calibre Artillery in areas in Kupwara, Baramulla, Uri, Poonch, Mendhar and Rajouri sectors in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sixteen innocent lives have been lost, including three women and five children, due to Pakistani firing. Here too, India was compelled to respond to bring Mortar and Artillery fire from Pakistan to a halt.
Indian Armed Forces reiterate their commitment to non-escalation, provided it is respected by the Pakistani military.
Press Briefing on Operation Sindoor
Meantime, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, during a media briefing in New Delhi on Operation Sindoor, slammed the disinformation directed at India from across the border since the events that started with the barbaric terror attack in Pahalgam, mentioning that the “original escalation” has been from Pakistan on April 22 and the Indian Armed forces are only responding to it.
“The allegations to the targetting of the Neelum-Jhelum dam project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are absolutely fabricated and a blatant lie. India has only targetted terrorist infrastructure… If this kind of a claim is a pretext for targetting Indian infrastructure of similar nature, then Pakistan will be entirely responsible for the consequences that will undoubtedly follow,” he said.
India also once again highlighted Pakistan’s pressure to remove references to The Resistance Front (TRF) – the Pakistan-based terror group responsible for the heinous Pahalgam terror attack – in the April 25 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) press statement.
“This was after the fact that the TRF had claimed responsibility for this attack, not once but twice – within a few hours of the incident on April 22 and then again on the morning of April 23. It is perhaps only after the full gravity of the incident was realised by its masters and handlers across the border that it was managed to back off from this claim. Obviously, that retraction does not convince anybody,” said Misri.
The Resistance Front, which has claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack, is a front for the UN-proscribed Pakistani terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. It had earlier given inputs about the TRF in the half-yearly report to the Monitoring Team of the UN’s 1267 Sanctions Committee in May and November 2024, bringing out its role as a cover for Pakistan-based terrorist groups.
Earlier too, in December 2023, India had informed the monitoring team about LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad operating through small terror groups such as the TRF.
Misri on Thursday also highlighted that Pakistan’s reputation as the epicentre of global terrorism is rooted in a number of instances.
“I don’t need to remind where Osama Bin Laden was found and who called him a martyr. Pakistan is also home to a large number of UN proscribed terrorists and also to terrorists proscribed by many countries. You must have seen in the last few days, their Defence Minister and former foreign minister accepted their country’s involvement with such terror groups,” said Misri.
