United States: India has repelled multiple Pakistani attacks on Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Gujarat as part of a blackout imposed across a vast swath of the western border on Thursday night. A minimum of eight Pakistani Missiles were intercepted at Satwari, Samba, RS Pura, and Arnia areas in the Jammu region as India’s S400 air defence system eliminated hostile missiles at several places across the Western border, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Jammu region saw blackouts as well as sirens. Sirens were also heard at Akhnoor, Samba, Baramulla, and Kupwara.
Military Confirms Cross-Border Strike Disruptions
Earlier in the day, the Indian military claimed it had disrupted attempts by the Pakistan forces to attack multiple military targets across 15 regions of the country – the north and west – with missiles and drones, and set fire to Pakistan’s air defence network at several locations in that country, one of them in Lahore having being destroyed in the counter-attack.
Over 50 Pakistani drones shot down by Indian Air Defence along LoC & IB, say sources. Army used L-70, Zu-23mm, Schilka & advanced anti-drone systems to neutralize the threat.
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Airports Shut Amid Escalation
Pakistan’s civil aviation authority closed Karachi airport until 6 pm, and Islamabad and Lahore for a while, “due to operational reasons”.
This comes one day after India conducted precision strikes against nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the killing of 26 people in a terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22. The 26 killed in the terror attack were Indian tourists. The operation was code-named Operation Sindoor. Union Minister Rajnath Singh told an all-party meeting on Thursday that at least 100 terrorists had been killed in the operation, as reported by Hindustan Times.