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Op Sindoor most expansive attack launched by India in recent years | India News

Op Sindoor most expansive attack launched by India in recent years | India News

The Indian Army’s attack at nine terror locations late Wednesday night in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir marked the most expansive and widespread retaliation by India in recent years, since the Balakot airstrikes in 2019 and the surgical strikes following the Uri attack in 2016. While the exact nature of the attack or the weapon systems used is not known so far, they are believed to have been high-precision missile strikes. Both the Balakot strike and the surgical strike were also retaliatory actions by India, but were localised in nature. The nine sites Story continues below this ad Of the nine terror sites India says it has struck in Pakistan and PoK, four are said to be Bahawalpur and Muridke in Pakistan Punjab and Muzaffarabad and Kotli in PoK. All these cities are home to terror camps. Bahawalpur, which faces the Rajasthan frontier across the Thar desert, has been a stronghold of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, led by Maulana Masood Azhar, who was among three terrorists swapped by India in exchange for the passengers of Indian Airlines flight …