India claims to have neutralized the Air Defence System near Lahore, in a statement issued on Thursday afternoon. India claims that the Air Defence System was neutralized after Pakistan attempted to target Northern and Western India.
In a press briefing, India claims to have neutralized the Air Defence System near in a new wave of clashes of ‘Operation Sindoor’ orchestrated by India.
“During the Press Briefing on Operation Sindoor on May 7, India had called its response as focused, measured, and non-escalatory. It was specifically mentioned that Pakistani military establishments had not been targeted. It was also reiterated that any attack on military targets in India will invite a suitable response,” a Press Information Bureau statement read.
“On the night of May 7-8, Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in Northern and Western India including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and missiles. These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks,” it said.
“Today morning Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at several locations in Pakistan. Indian response has been in the same domain with the same intensity as Pakistan. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised,” it said.
India argues that Pakistan is provoking India to attack. Meanwhile, Pakistan is yet to respond to the claims made by India.
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On Thursday, Pakistan downed 25 Israeli-made Harop drones, informed the Director General Inter-Services Public Relations, ISPR, Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.
The military media wing said that drones were shot down using both electronic countermeasures (soft-kill techniques) and conventional weaponry (hard-kill systems) after they were detected over multiple areas across Pakistan.
“The Pakistan Armed Forces are responding decisively to all hostile actions and continue to thwart enemy intentions,” the statement read.
According to ISPR, the debris of Israeli-owned drones is being recovered from various cities in Pakistan. As many as 12 cities were targeted with Indian drones on Thursday morning.