Operation Sindoor and Aftermath

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"It felt like the sky turned red', says witness to India strike in Pakistan

15 hours ago
Umer Draz Nangiana
Reporting from Muridke, Pakistan
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EPA A man standing on the rubble of a building in Muridke
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On Wednesday morning, dozens of people gathered on the perimeter of a sprawling complex in the Pakistani city of Muridke to see the damage for themselves.

Overnight, Indian missiles had pounded buildings at this site, which lies not far from the border with India in Pakistan's Punjab region, and just a short drive from the major city of Lahore.

No one was being allowed into the complex - but even from a distance as BBC reporters peered through the barbed wire fence surrounding it, the damage was unmistakable.

The BBC spoke to people on the ground who witnessed the bombardment first-hand.

"It was the main mosque that got targeted," one man said. "The sky lit up and it felt like the sky turned red."

Another said: "A sudden missile appeared and there was a blast. I immediately got out the house.

"I had only reached the mosque near my house when there were three more consecutive blasts. I heard all three, they were really loud."

When a BBC team arrived in Muridke, security service personnel were closely controlling access to the site.
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BBC Urdu A damaged building, with its ceiling collapsed
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From a road surrounded by dense housing, the BBC's team could see a partially collapsed building and rubble spread over a huge area.

Emergency workers were still searching the wreckage for any injured or dead.

This complex houses a hospital, school and mosque, while India said it had hit sites linked to what it calls terror organisations - so why was it targeted? The answer appears to lie in its past.

Until a few years ago, it was originally used by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based militant group which is designated as a terror organisation by the United Nations.

It was later used by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which observers have described as a front group for LeT.

Both groups have been banned by the Pakistani government, which has since taken over the facilities in Muridke.

EPA The view from inside a building damaged in a missile strike
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But on Tuesday night, this complex was in the crosshairs of an Indian military which has vowed to respond to the killing of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.

India's government says its strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir targeted what it described as terrorist infrastructure. Pakistan's government has denied any links to the Pahalgam attack.

One man told us the Muridke complex usually houses children from miles around who come to study at the madrasa, though it was largely evacuated a week ago.

Later in the day, camera crews were allowed to access the site and see the damage up close.

The roof of one building had crumpled under the force of an explosion.

Holes had been torn through the walls of another and a large amount of debris was scattered across the ground.

Across this region, people are hoping there is not more debris before long.
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pakistan tried a misadventure last night using their chinese junk, all neutralized and heavy losses incurred by pakistanis, hence no bombastic chest thumping from lahori/pindi chooran sellers!!

Now, what you see is neutralizing whatever is left with paxstan!
 
both iran and saudi foreign ministers

have met jaishankar today.
 
both iran and saudi foreign ministers have met jaishankar today.
They afraid about Arabian sea ?
Probably just like Indira gandhi went to meet with Saddam and bani sadr in 80s before start of iran iraq war .
Consequently a indian ship named archana was sunk by Iraqi super etendart in middle years of war , when tanker war began.
So basically they want that ships feel safe to go bab al Mandab
 
while our forces are deservingly getting their fair share of praise,
let us also salute our unknown men for all intelligence activities that made most of these things possible with required precision 🫡 - may they squeeze more juicy info out so those rabid rats can be taken to jahannum
 
both iran and saudi foreign ministers

have met jaishankar today.

Proki begging and jehadi nations will always try to work on anothers behalf against a kaffir.

We should never have any relationship with these beyond purely business and transactional.

It is good we are testing all kinds of weapons: surface to air, surface to surface, precision munitions, and now kamikaze drones.

Not sure if we fired air to air missiles from our fighters

Yes, we rarely get the chance in real world scenarios.

So we have already tried French, Russian and Indian platforms. Performance as expected so far.

How long

The proportionality equation be maintained?

Till they manage to hit something if importance. I guess if they succeed last night, we'd be beyond drones at this point.
 
They tried swift retard yesterday night but we played Uno Reverse

Swift Retard but with some damage being done.
The whole scheme is to show us as victims, not aggressors and then pound them appropriately.

Remember the pahalgam terrorists have ((( plausible deniability ))), PA/PAF assets attacking our civilian or military installations don't.

By doing this drone clap-back and now that it has spread on SM, it puts more pressure on them to escalate even further.

We win the further up the escalation ladder.
At some point public pressure also beats ((( diplomatic pressure ))) black and blue, Arabs and Goras can fuck off, the people want more blood
 
One thing you guys should notice after op swiftretrot paf ke kai sare pilot ka interview aaya dj icepyaar ne khoob bola ki we shoot down 2 indian jets lekin is baar koi ho halla nahi ho raha hai except unka defence minster ne claim kiya to mujhe yahi lagta hai ki koi jet shoot down nahi hua hai aur if they were intercepted by hq9 to missile ki debris to yaha honi chaiye
 
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