Over 100 terrorists killed in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, claims Indian military

More than 100 terrorists were killed in strikes carried out by India in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7, said Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, the director general of military operations, on Sunday.

Among those killed was Mohammad Yusuf Azhar, the brother-in-law of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and an accused in the IC-814 hijacking case, said Ghai during a press briefing.

This came a day after India and Pakistan reached an agreement to put an end to four days of skirmishes that escalated on May 7 with the Indian military strikes – codenamed Operation Sindoor – on what it claimed were terrorist camps in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

The Pakistan Army retaliated to the strikes by repeatedly shelling Indian villages along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Several civilians have been killed in the firing.

On Sunday, Ghai said that Pakistan’s response to Operation Sindoor was “erratic and rattled”. He said this 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”.

Air Marshal AK Bharti said that the Indian military’s aim for the strikes – codenamed Operation Sindoor – was “to target terrorists and their infrastructure, not any other infrastructure, especially not Pakistani civilian or military establishments”.

Bharti added that this was achieved with...

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