Operation Sindoor: ‘Over 100 terrorists killed; Pakistan Army lost 35-40 personnel,’ says DGMO
irector General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt General Rajiv Ghai with Air Marshal AK Bharti, Vice Admiral AN Pramod and Major General SS Sharda during a press conference on 'Operation Sindoor', in New Delhi | PTI
Over 100 terrorists, including high-value targets such as Yusuf Azhar, Abdul Malik Rauf and Mudasir Ahmed, were killed in the Operation Sindoor launched by Indian armed forces in response to the Pahalgam attack.
Director General of Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai said at a media briefing that nine terror targets were identified after careful deliberations and they were hit using precision weapons.
"It set into motion a very diligent and microscopic scarring of the terror landscape across the borders and the identification of terror camps and training sites. The locations that emerged were numerous, but as we deliberated more, we realised that some of these terror hubs were now bereft of presence and had preemptively been vacated, fearing retribution from us," he said.
General Ghai said nine terrorist camps were confirmed by various intelligence agencies to be inhabited. Some of these were in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir while there were others that were located in the Punjab Province in Pakistan.
"Nefarious places such as Muridke, the hub center of the Lashkar-e-Taiba has over the years bred infamous characters such as Ajmal Kasab and the likes of David Headley," he added.
The DGMO claimed that around 35 to 40 Pakistan army personnel were killed between May 7 and 10 in the military offensives between the two sides. Five Indian armed forces personnel also lost their lives.
General Ghai said the Indian Air Force played a major part in these strikes by engaging some of the terror camps while the Indian Navy provided wherewithal in terms of precision munitions.
Elaborating upon the chain of events, the DGMO said soon after India struck the terrorist camps, Pakistan violated the Line of Control. “The erratic and rattled response of our enemy was apparent from the number of civilians, inhabited villages and religious sites such as Gurudwaras that were unfortunately hit by them, leading to a sad loss of lives,” he said.
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