India Pakistan tensions: Indian air defence units successfully intercepted at least eight missiles fired by Pakistan towards the border areas of Jammu, including the strategically important Jammu Airport at Satwari on Thursday evening, defence sources said here.
Drawing a parallel to the tactics of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, the sources said all “cheap” rockets directed at the Jammu region were successfully intercepted and neutralised by Air Defence Units.
The missiles were aimed at key locations, including Satwari (Jammu Airport), Samba, RS Pura, and Arnia.
The sources said that the Pakistani Army has been operating in a manner akin to a terror organisation like Hamas and referred to a meeting between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Hamas operatives in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir last month.
There were also potential sightings of hostile drones along India’s western border, which were successfully thwarted.
A sudden power outage plunged Jammu city into darkness following two loud explosions, likely resulting from the interception of intruding drones. Immediately after, sirens echoed throughout the city, alerting residents to seek shelter.
The aerial objects had attempted to strike the strategic Jammu airport and its surrounding areas, which house Army, IAF, and paramilitary installations.
The sources confirmed the activation of air defence protocols, resulting in the downing of several Pakistani drones by the Indian Air Defence System.
Eyewitness accounts suggest that one of the drones was seen falling outside the airport premises.
Residents of Jammu city were seen perching from their balconies to observe the aerial activity, including flares lighting up the night sky.
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India Pakistan tensions: India foils Pak military’s attempts to engage targets in North, West
Indian Armed forces foiled attempts by the Pakistani military to engage a number of military targets in Northern and Western India using drones and missiles last night and destroyed a Pakistani air defence system in Lahore, officials said on Thursday. The Pakistani military attempted to target Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, they said.
These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (Grid and Air Defence systems), the defence ministry said. “The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks,” it said.
Countering the disinformation by Pakistan in wake of the recent tensions, India on Thursday said that the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22 was the original escalation. In the second briefing on the issue, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that the Indian response was non-escalatory, precise, and measured.
“We are only responding to the original escalation,” he said. India has carried out a series of precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK). The strikes were launched in the early hours of Wednesday as part of ‘Operation Sindoor’
