India Fires Missiles at ‘Terrorist Infrastructure’ in Pakistan
The Indian Army: “Justice is Served. Jai Hind (Victory to India)!”
India launched Operation Sindoor early Wednesday morning local time, targeting what the army calls “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have nukes. Both countries expanded their military abilities after a clash in 2019. (I detail the history of India-Pakistan, which includes three wars, at the bottom of this post.)
The Times of India printed the Defense Ministry’s statement:
The operations were precise, calculated and maintained a non-escalatory approach. We specifically avoided targeting any Pakistani military installations. India exercised significant restraint whilst choosing the targets and implementing the operation. These actions were undertaken following the brutal terrorist incident at Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of 25 Indians and one Nepali national. We are fulfilling our pledge to ensure accountability for those behind this attack. The Ministry of Defence will provide comprehensive details about ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’ later in the day: Defence ministry
The Press Information Bureau stated:
“A little while ago, the Indian Armed Forces launched ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed. Altogether, nine (9) sites have been targeted. Our actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. No Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution. These steps come in the wake of the barbaric Pahalgam terrorist attack in which 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen were murdered. We are living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable. There will be detailed briefing on ‘OPERATION SINDOOR’, later today.”
The Indian Embassy in DC disclosed that National Security Advisor Ajit Doval spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the national security team after the attack.
The embassy said, “India has credible leads, technical inputs on Pak-based terrorists’ involvement in Pahalgam attack.” I could not find more information on this one other than the quick update in The Times of India.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote on X: “The cunning enemy has carried out cowardly attacks on five locations in Pakistan. Pakistan has every right to respond forcefully to this act of war imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given. The entire nation stands with the Pakistani armed forces, and the morale and spirit of the entire Pakistani nation are high. The Pakistani nation and the Pakistani armed forces know how to deal with the enemy. We will never allow the enemy to succeed in their nefarious goals.”
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will begin major air exercises near the Pakistan border on May 7 and end on May 15.
The Times of India reported that the army’s mission is to dismantle “terror networks in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).”
India has claimed Pakistan violated the ceasefire (more about the ceasefire below under the “history” section).
Indian police also announced that Pakistan’s shelling injured two women, one critically, in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Pakistan has insisted that India’s attack killed three people and injured 12 others.
Guys…in a time of war, take everything with a grain of salt.
Justice is Served.
Jai Hind! pic.twitter.com/Aruatj6OfA
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) May 6, 2025
#WATCH | Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir: Visuals from Line of Control (LoC) as the Indian Armed Forces launched ‘Operation Sindoor’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and… pic.twitter.com/A7DG8dRZ6v
— ANI (@ANI) May 6, 2025
April Massacre
Vijeta has chronicled the tensions between India and Pakistan for a long time. I hope he can pick up this story tomorrow since he has more knowledge on the subject.
On April 22, Indian security services began a manhunt after Islamic terrorists slaughtered 26 people in Pahalgam, located in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
The Pakistan-based Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was also responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attack, took responsibility for the massacre.
An Indian newspaper reported that the terrorists separated Muslims and non-Muslims, murdering those who could not recite a Quran verse.
India expelled Pakistani nationals, telling them to leave by April 29 and closed the main border crossing.
Pakistan closed its airspace to Indian carriers.
The armies have clashed along the border since the attack. It was only a matter of time.
History
The tension began in 1947 after the partition of British India when the area became India and Pakistan based on religious lines: Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.
Jammu and Kashmir could pick which country to join. The leader of Kashmir wanted independence but asked to join India for protection against Pakistani herders.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars:
- 1948, known as the First Kashmir War
- 1965, the second war over Kashmir
- 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh
As of now, Kashmir includes the territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh (India), Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan), and Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram (China).
The United Nations’ Line of Control divides the region between India and Pakistan.
That means India controls around half of the area. Pakistan controls a third of the region. China has the other part.
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I did not have Islamic idiots in Pakistan starting a nuclear war on my 2025 Bingo card. Frankly there wasn’t room..
Pakistan, like Qatar, for a long time has been a duplicitous, ostensible U.S. “ally” that talks a good game to U.S diplomats, while enabling and sheltering Muslim terrorists.
Surely you’re not referring to the ally country in which Osama bin Laden maintained his last known address?
Right. We’re supposed to believe that Pakistani military/intelligence wasn’t aware that bin Laden was hiding out in a huge house, situated a few hundred feet away from a military academy. Pakistan never paid a price for that bit of subterfuge.
Pakistan is mainly our “ally” because they have those nukes. They’re not nicely ensconced on airbases or in missile silos like most of ours (and China’s and Russia’s) are. They were whisked away somewhere shortly after being built. So we keep playing “Nice doggy” while
reaching for a stick. Actually, we just keep bribing them – money and foreign policy – in hopes those nukes never come out. This is Progressive foreign policy of which TR would not approve.It’s about more than nukes, and, U.S. foreign policy attitudes towards Pakistan predate that country’s acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Dhimmi-crats have naively believed that Pakistan (as with Turkey and Qatar) can be cultivated as a beacon of alleged Islamic “moderacy.” Except, everything that Pakistan does in rhetoric and deed undermines that naive notion.
Islam and terror. That’s all you need to know.
Islam should be happy now that Putin is a madman so us islamophobes can’t point out that every ongoing war involved muslims (is that the case w/o russia/ukraine?)
“The cunning enemy has carried out cowardly attacks on five locations in Pakistan. Pakistan has every right to respond forcefully to this act of war imposed by India, and a forceful response is being given. The entire nation stands with the Pakistani armed forces, and the morale and spirit of the entire Pakistani nation are high. The Pakistani nation and the Pakistani armed forces know how to deal with the enemy. We will never allow the enemy to succeed in their nefarious goals.”
You could easily replace Pakistan with Iran or Hamas or PLO or etc.. and India with Israel. These muslims certainly are bombastic but definitely not creative.
msm: trumps tariffs force india paki showdown
“Trump Ignites Apocalyptic Confrontation Between Nuclear Powers.”
Step 1: Tariffs
Step 2.
Step 3: Nuclear war between India and Pakistan
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the national security team after the attack.
Note they came AFTER the attacks were executed. Nice OPSEC, India.
Right now, if I were running a foreign nation’s military, the US would be a post-strike notification nation. It’s been like that ever since Obama. The upper-end of the military has entirely too many cozy relationships with reporters. (And that’s not counting the “oops, added the wrong guy to a Signal chat’)
The cunning enemy has carried out cowardly attacks on five locations in Pakistan.
Standard Muslim boilerplate for “How dare they respond to our terrorist attack!”
this act of war
This is the culture Europe is letting inside its borders. “We must avenge this act against our honor that was in response our attack. It’s not right that any of our people suffered in a response to our own actions.”
I feel another Sunny Deol Bollywood movie in the works!!
What capacity does India possess to defend against a nuclear attack by Pakistan?
As far as I know, India has no real means of Strategic Defense. And for that matter, as far as I know neither does Pakistan. Which normally would mean deterrence; i.e. “If you nuke me I will nuke you back,”. However, Pakistan does not use [and repeatedly has said so] deterrence doctrine and instead reserves to itself “First Use” doctrine, most recently this morning.
Which means that for India, they have to plan that Pakistan will hit them first . . . and they have to consider the necessity and advantages of hitting Pakistan first in hopes of taking out that which will hit India. Add in the detail that India and Pakistan are of mutually opposing religions that cannot co-exist, and you end up with the least stable strategic paradigm possible.
Subotai Bahadur
Well, if India decides to go for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, assuming they know where they are, do they have enough/the right type of conventional means to be successful? And if so, would a strike on Pakistan’s nuclear targets guarantee an actual nuclear attack by Pakistan? I don’t know how crazy their leaders are in private.
I am assuming that it will be a nuclear strike as a missed conventional weapon will lead to the target being used against India. With a nuke, a near miss still will likely take out the target.
Subotai Bahadur
The defense is the possibility of counterattack. HItting an incoming missile, Iron Dome style, is quite difficult, and if the enemy has advanced missiles, maybe impossible.
So it’s entirely possible that neither India nor Pakistan have “defense” in the traditional sense.