3 Civilians Killed In Firing, Artillery Shelling By Pakistan Across Line Of Control

Three civilians were killed in Jammu and Kashmir late Tuesday as Pakistan resorted to arbitrary and indiscriminate firing across the Line of Control and the International Border, the Army said this morning.

The Indian Army said a "proportionate" response had been made.

The firing came hours after India launched precision strikes at terror training camps - run by the Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba - inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

At 1.44 am the Indian Army, Navy, and Air Force, in a first tri-services operation against Pakistan since the 1971 war, targeted and destroyed nine sites in overnight strikes codenamed 'Operation Sindoor'.

The sites were Bahawalpur, Muridke, Gulpur, Sawai, Kotli, Sarjal and Barnala, and Mehmoona.

Bahawalpur was the HQ of the Jaish and a planning hub for major attacks, sources told NDTV, while Muridke was the Lashkar base that trained terrorists who carried out the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai.

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Gulpur was the launchpad for attacks in J&K's Rajouri and Poonch between 2023 and 2024; among the attacks that were launched from here were a string of targeted civilian killings.

Sawai was a Lashkar camp linked to multiple attacks on India, including the Pahalgam horror.

Koti was a training hub. Sarjal and Barnala were sites close to the LoC and International Border, and were used for infiltration purposes. Mehmoona, meanwhile, was a Hizbul Mujahideen camp.

India had said earlier that it has proof - material shared last month with diplomats from the United States, Russia, China, and major European nations - the Pak deep state planned the Pahalgam attack. 

The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Pak-based Lashkar, had claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack, in which 26 people, mostly civilians, were gunned down at a tourist hotspot.

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