India struck 13 Pakistani air bases during Operation Sindoor, says NSA Ajit Doval

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Friday said that India hit 13 air bases and nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir during Operation Sindoor, PTI reported.

“The precision was to the point where India knew who was where and the entire operation lasted hardly 23 minutes past 1 am on May 7,” the news agency quoted Doval as saying at an event in Chennai.

“Foreign press said that Pakistan did that and this,” Doval said. “You show me one photograph, one image, which shows any damage to any Indian [structure], even a glass pane having been broken.”

He added that the before and after images only showed 13 air bases that were hit in Pakistan on May 10.

On May 10, the Indian armed forces said that the Pakistani air bases and defence installations that were struck “using air-launched precision weapons from our fighter aircraft” included Sargodha, Bholari, Rafiqi, Murid, Chaklala (Rawalpindi) and Rahim Yar Khan.

The headquarters of the Pakistan Army is located in Rawalpindi.

Radar sites at Pakistan’s Pasrur and Sialkot aviation bases were also targeted using precision ammunition, the Indian military said.

Doval’s remarks came days Defence Secretary RK Singh on Monday told CNBC-TV18 that it was is incorrect to say that multiple Rafale jets of the Indian Air Force were shot down by...

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