Amid Pakistan's major escalation over India's precision strikes on its terrorist infrastructure and terror camps, top global security analyst Michael Rubin told NDTV that India should take a leaf from Israel's book in its "war against terror".
India on Friday opposed IMF's proposal to extend fresh loans of USD 2.3 billion to Pakistan, saying the funds could be misused for financing state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.
Poonch, cradled in a valley and embraced by hills, us caught in the crossfire of hate. The hills here don't just rise - they loom. And from those heights in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) terror rains down.
Jammu went dark for the second night in a row after blasts were heard and sirens sounded in the region.
Pakistan's massive escalation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the International Border in other states had a Turkish link.
The Pakistani military launched Turkish-made 'Songar' armed drones on Thursday night, the government said in a briefing today. The Songar, developed by Ankara-based defence company Asisguard, is the first armed drone in the Turkish military.
The indigenously developed Akash missile system was instrumental in neutralising missiles and drones and protecting cities in west India when Pakistan attacked Thursday night.
Pakistan fired at least 300 drones, some of Turkish origin, toward India in a bid to target military installations in 36 cities in northern and western India, from Jammu and Kashmir to Punjab to Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.
The government today accused Pakistan of "targeting places of worship" In India and said several "gurudwaras, convents and temples" along the border in Jammu and Kashmir were damaged by Pakistani shelling.
While Pakistan was attempting, and failing, to strike military installations in India using missiles and drones for the second day running, the Indian armed forces launched drones at four sites in the country and destroyed an air defence radar.
Deterrence between India and Pakistan is fragile, but India's capacity to deter Pakistan's use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy will require more than kinetic strikes, as we have witnessed over the last two days.
Pakistan did not close its airspace yesterday and allowed civilian aircraft to operate, while it sneakily launched Turkish-made drones at Indian cities on Thursday, the government said in a briefing this evening.
Pakistan fired 300 to 400 Turkish drones in late Thursday night attacks on Indian military installationsin or near 36 towns or cities across Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, and Punjab, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi said in Friday evening press briefing.
The Indian Army remains committed to safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the nation
Ensuring that Pakistan has no way to obfuscate and hide behind propaganda, India is documenting evidence of its strikes on terror infrastructure in the country as part of Operation Sindoor.
Pakistan's disinformation machinery has once again come under the spotlight, this time for targeting India's National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval through a fake Facebook post.
The Fact Check unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has clarified that claims on social media about a ban on entry to airports across India are false.
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif once again embarrassed himself and his nation on live television after he was caught spreading misinformation regarding India following successful strikes on nine terror sites in Pakistan and PoK.
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