New Delhi: The terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were selected with the aim of crippling the core terrorist activities, and to deter further attacks, official said following India’s successful execution of Operation Sindoor, launched to deliver justice to the victims and families of the horrific terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22.
Addressing a press conference Colonel Sofiya Qureshi along with Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said that the operation was carried out clinically, so as to avoid any damage to civilian infrastructures and loss of any civilian lives.
Giving details about the operation, Col Qureshi said it was launched on the night of May 6 and 7 by the Indian armed forces between 0105 AM to 0130 AM.
Wing Commander Singh said, “As many as nine terrorist camps were targeted and successfully destroyed. Over the last three decades, Pakistan has systematically built terror infrastructures. It is a complex web of recruitment, indoctrination centres, training areas and launch pads. These camps are lodged both in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir”.
Col Qureshi said, “Some of the well-known training camps in Pakistan are distributed in the Sawai Nala in the North counting approximately 21 and ending at Bhawalpur to the South”.
The other camps are Syed Na Bilal, Maskar-E-Aqsa, Chelabandi, Abdullah Bin Masood, Dulai, Garhi Habibullah, Batrasi, Balakot, Oghi, Boi, Sensa, Gulpur, Kotli, Barali, Dungi, Barnala, Mehmoona Joya, Sarjal and Muridke, the officer said.
Moreover, in Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Col Qureshi added that there were five active terrorists camps – Sawai Nala and Syedna Bilal in Muzaffarabad, Gulpur and Abbas in Kotli and Barnala in Bhimber, where activities against India were being conducted.
Under ‘Operation Sindoor’ nine sites were targeted by the Indian armed forces from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed.
UNI
