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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
NEW DELHI, May 7 (Xinhua) — The Indian government on Wednesday confirmed airstrikes on nine identified “terrorist training camps” in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
According to local media, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally monitored the airstrikes.
Reports said the airstrikes were carried out as part of Operation Sindoor, which targets women whose husbands were killed on April 22 in Pahalgam district of Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The attack, which left 26 people dead, was described as the worst attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir in decades and has escalated tensions between India and Pakistan.
The Indian Ministry of Defence announced in a press release the launch of Operation Sindoor, targeting “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir from where “terrorist attacks” against India were planned and carried out.
“A total of nine targets were struck. Our actions were targeted, measured and non-escalatory. No Pakistani military installations were attacked. India demonstrated considerable restraint in the choice of targets and the methods of their execution,” the statement said.
The move comes in response to the April 22 attack on tourists in Pahalgam in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which left 25 Indians and one Nepalese national dead.
The head of the Inter-Services Public Relations, the Pakistani army’s media wing, said on Wednesday that at least eight civilians, including a child, had been killed, 35 others were injured and two were missing in missiles fired by India. -0-