A few minutes earlier, a video recalled, supporting archives in support, all the attacks perpetrated since 2000 and that India has attributed to Pakistani jihadist organizations. The assault against the Federal Parliament in 2001, the Bombay attacks in 2008…
“Pakistan has taken no action to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure on its soil. Our information indicates that other attacks was in preparation. We had to dissuade and thwart these attacks”justifies Vikram Misri. For his part, Islamabad never ceased to deny any involvement in the April 22 attack, demanding an international investigation to shed light on these events.
Reprisals
Heated to white by the nationalist media, Indian public opinion expected strikes against the enemy brother. The bombings on the night of May 6 to 7 go far beyond all the reprisals taken by India against its neighbor for twenty-five years. In 2016, the Hindu nationalist government said it had launched a brief commando foray into opposing territory. Then, in 2019, an air strike had targeted a building supposed to belong to the Jaish-E-Mohammed, a local jihadist organization founded in 2000. The two operations had taken place less than 50 kilometers from the control line which divides the cashmere in two.
This time, the Indian army claimed nine bombings across eastern Pakistan, one of which is about 120 kilometers from its border against buildings in Bahawalpur, a city renowned for sheltering the Jaish-e-Mohammed. The Lashkar-E-Taiba headquarters in Muridke, some thirty kilometers from India, was also affected.
The Indian Air Force has unveiled some videos to prove the seriousness of the operation “Sindoor” (Hindi powder). We see a suicide bomber drone rushing overnight to a building. Then these are some low -power bombs that fall on what is presented as “training camps”. The bombing in the city of Bahawalpur also demonstrates that India used a long -range missile to deeply hit the Pakistani soil. A first. With these unprecedented intensity strikes, a landing was crossed.
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An inevitable Pakistani reaction
New Delhi said he wanted to stop there. “These actions have been targeted, calibrated not to cause an escalation,” proclaimed the press release from the Ministry of Defense. Despite everything, the Indian air attack will force the Pakistani army to retaliate to affirm the credibility of its deterrence.
-Wednesday, the Pakistani national security committee, which brings together Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the army leaders, condemned one “act of war. […] Pakistan military forces defended territorial integrity by slaughtering five combat aircraft and drones. ” Contacted, the Indian Air Force made no comments: “The operation is underway. We will not give a detail “replied his spokesperson Jaideep Singh. If the air raid was finished on Wednesday at dawn, the two armies exchanged heavy weapon shots on both sides of the control line in the following hours.
For the moment, Islamabad has not published any image of debris or slaughtered plane. The Reuters agency, citing official Indian sources, revealed that three military aircraft had crashed into the Indian cashmere. And the local press reported the death of a civilian in the pendjab after the crash, in a field, of an IAF apparatus last night. A video, which seems to have been taken in this region by a local resident, shows the remains of a machine similar to the French plane engine M88.
The media also distributed pictures of debris taken in the Pulwama region, in cashmere. The shape and size of these parts indicate that these are the remains of an additional tank mounted under the Rafale or Mirage 2000 type aircraft to take more fuel. On a piece of metal, you can read instructions in French for filling the tank. “”These images do not prove the destruction of an aircraft. If he had crashed, there would have been much more debris and damage around “, decrypts an aeronautical analyst at Figaro.
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Pakistani army spokesperson General Ahmed Chaudhry said the attack had killed 26 people and 46 injured. “”The reckless actions of India have brought two nuclear powers closer to a major conflict. […] Pakistan reserves the right to respond appropriately when, and where it will decide “warned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The army has published on its YouTube channel a martial clip spreading out its planes, combat helicopters, artillery and troops in the process of fire during shooting exercises in recent days. The title of the video was unequivocal: “We are ready. Allah is great.”
This is not the first time that the Pakistani soldiers have faced this type of crisis. In January 2024, Iran had bombed, with missile blows, the bases of an independence group Baloutche a hundred kilometers in Pakistani territory. Islamabad replied less than two days later by launching suicide bomber and long -range ammunition. An operation that prefigures, perhaps, its counterattack on India.
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