Op Sindoor: India Defends Pakistan Strikes as Controlled Anti-Terror Action

New Delhi: The nine alarm camps and training accessories targeted in ‘Operation Sindoor’ – India’s brief attention aggressive acknowledgment to the Pahalgam advance – represented a “measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible” acknowledgment to Pakistan’s continuing abutment of cross-border agitation and strikes on India, the government said in a conference Wednesday morning.

The targets were called based on “credible intelligence input” and focused on “dismantling agitator basement and disabling terrorists”, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said.

‘Operation Sindoor’ – the Indian military’s aboriginal tri-service mission back the 1971 war with Pak – additionally represented the country’s appropriate to acknowledge to and pre-empt cross-border terrorism, he said.

Also read: India Strikes Pakistan and Pok: What Happens Next?

The presser included statements from two women admiral – Colonel Sofiya Qureshi from the Army and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh from the Air Force – who accent the links amid the targets and Pak-based agitator groups, as able-bodied as their attacks on India.

One of these camps, Col Qureshi said, was in Muridke, which is 40km arctic of Lahore.

Muridke housed a Lashkar-e-Taiba agitator training abject that accomplished Ajmal Kasab and David Headley, the terrorists abaft the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in which over 150 bodies were killed.

An adjunct of Lashkar, calling itself The Resistance Front, had claimed albatross for the Pahalgam attack, in which 25 Indians and a Nepali, best of whom were civilians were killed.

Among the added alarm camps targeted was Bahawalpur in Pak’s Punjab province, which was the assumption center of the Jaish-e-Mohammed alarm accumulation amenable for the 2019 Pulwama attack, in which 40 Indian soldiers were killed, and the advance on Army abject in Uri in 2016.

The group, led by capital agitator Masood Azhar, additionally claimed the 2001 advance on the Indian Parliament.