India Pakistan tensions: A loud sound, likely of shelling, was heard in Jaisalmer on Thursday, police sources said.
A top officer confirmed that a sound was heard in Jaisalmer.
Forces are on high alert and border districts remain under a blackout.
The skies lit up as Pakistan fired missile/drones which were neutralised by Indian air defence system, a source said, adding there was no report of any damage.
Further details are awaited.
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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’
