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News18
14-05-2025
- Politics
- News18
'Strategic Sovereignty Vs Dependency': Amrullah Saleh Decodes Op Sindoor Against Pak Offensive
Last Updated: Saleh, who had backed India's Operation Sindoor strikes last week, said India was thankful for strategic sovereignty, while Pakistan was indebted to strategic dependency. Afghanistan's Acting President-in-Exile Amrullah Saleh offered his insights into the recent military conflict between India and Pakistan, calling it a battle between strategic sovereignty and strategic dependency. Saleh, who had extended support to India's Operation Sindoor strikes last week, said, 'India is thanking its forces, its system, its economy, its people, and its leaders for engendering a new deterrence and elevating the challenge too costly for Pakistan to dare another adventure." 'Pakistan, on the other hand, is thanking ever country and organisation except India for 'defusing the tension" and ending the blackout in Pakistan. One is thankful for strategic sovereignty, and the other is indebted to strategic dependency," he added. Saleh had earlier lauded India's airstrikes targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, in which 26 tourists were killed. He called the step 'bold, unprecedented, and true to its promise, tightening the rope by nine knots." advetisement He also criticised Pakistan's Army and its proxies for having supported the Taliban for decades, saying that they were emboldened by their success in Afghanistan and decided to carry out the brutal terror attack in Pahalgam last month. 'India shredded the notion that terrorists are separate from terrorist backers and thus targeted both. The notion that certain powerful rogue officers of Pakistani State authorize terrorist attacks was also shredded. This is a new paradigm. Another type of deniability must be invented," he said in another post. He further said Pakistan's 'Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos' had failed to take off the way it was propagated and the May 10 ceasefire had actually saved Pakistan's skin. For the first time, said Saleh, India shredded the notion that terrorists are separate from terrorist backers and thus targeted both. Operation Sindoor On May 7, 2025, India launched Operation Sindoor, a military operation targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The operation was a response to a deadly attack on April 22, 2025, in Pahalgam in which 26 civilians, including one Nepali national, were killed. Following the successful targeting of terror hideouts under Operation Sindoor, the Pakistani Army sent drones, missiles, UAVs and engaged in cross-border shelling and firing, targeting the military and civilians alike, as they intervened to save the terrorists India targeted to avenge the Pahalgam carnage. After four days of hostilities, India and Pakistan announced reaching an understanding on May 10 to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea, with effect from 5 pm that day. However, the Indian government made it clear that any future attack would see a strong response on India's own terms. Watch India Pakistan Breaking News on CNN-News18. Get breaking news, in-depth analysis, and expert perspectives on everything from geopolitics to diplomacy and global trends. Stay informed with the latest world news only on News18. Download the News18 App to stay updated! tags : Amrullah Saleh india pakistan conflict Operation Sindoor First Published: May 15, 2025, 00:00 IST
Leaders
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Leaders
Pakistan Launches Counterattack on India
Pakistan launched a retaliatory counterattack against India early on Saturday morning, targeting multiple military bases in India. Islamabad accused New Delhi of targeting three of its military bases with missiles, while world powers have ramped up diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions as the fighting between the two nuclear-armed neighbors intensifies, raising fears of a fully-fledged war. Pakistan Counterattack Early on Saturday, Islamabad announced it had begun retaliation strikes in response to Delhi's targeting of three military bases with missiles fired from fighter jets, which Pakistani air defenses intercepted most of them, reported Reuters. The Pakistani military spokesperson, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said that India had targeted Pakistan's Nur Khan, Murid and Shorkot air bases with six air-to-surface missiles. OPERATION BUNYAN UN MARSOOS UPDATE آپریشن بُنْيَانٌ مَّرْصُوْص (آہنی دیوار)اپڈیٹ Video of BrahMos storage site destruction goes viral The Brahmos storage site can be seen being destroyed in the video. — Pakistan Armed Forces News 🇵🇰 (@PakistanFauj) May 10, 2025 Later, Pakistan announced it had launched 'Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos' (a firm united structure) against India, according to Radio Pakistan. The retaliatory strikes targeted Indian military sites and bases, including BrahMos missile storage site in the Indian state of Punjab and Udhampur airbase in Indian-administered Kashmir. Nuclear Saber-rattling After launching the counterattack, the Pakistani military said that the Prime Minister had summoned a meeting of the National Command Authority, a body that comprises top civilian and military officials and oversees decisions related to Islamabad's nuclear arsenal, according to Reuters. Furthermore, Pakistan's Planning Minister, Ahsan Iqbal, said: 'We would hate to see that (nuclear) threshold being breached,' adding that the escalation was a 'test for the international community.' Analysts see the meeting of Pakistan's top nuclear body as a concerning escalation. Senior Fellow for South Asia at the Stimson Center, Asfandyar Mir, said: 'It is a soft nuclear signal but also well in line with Pakistan's nuclear doctrine of first use and realistically reflective of where we are on the escalation ladder – which is pretty high up, after multiple duels between both sides, and also lacking in precedent.' However, the Pakistani Defense Minister, Khawaja Asif, later denied reports about the nuclear body meeting. 'This thing that you have spoken about (nuclear option) is present, but let's not talk about it – we should treat it as a very distant possibility, we shouldn't even discuss it in the immediate context,' he told ARY TV. 'Before we get to that point, I think temperatures will come down. No meeting has happened of the National Command Authority, nor is any such meeting scheduled,' Asif added. India's Response On its part, the Indian military described Pakistan's attacks as 'blatant escalation,' adding that that its 'enemy designs' would be thwarted. The Indian military also said that defense units destroyed multiple armed drones that were flying over the holy city of Amritsar in India's Punjab state. According to the regional police, the Pakistani attacks killed five civilians in the Jammu region of Indian Kashmir. Calls for De-escalation The ongoing escalation between India and Pakistan has raised alarm across the world, fearing that they could resort to nuclear weapons. Hence, world powers are intensifying diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions and avoid an all-out war in the region. Saudi Arabia is making diplomatic efforts to de-escalate India-Pakistan tensions. The Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir, visited India and Pakistan on May 8-9, 2025, as part of the Kingdom's efforts to end the ongoing military confrontations and resolve disputes through dialogue, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The US State Secretary, Marco Rubio, called Pakistan's Army Chief, Asim Munir, on Friday morning, offering assistance in holding talks to avoid conflict escalation. He has also been in contact with Pakistan Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and Indian Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, since the end of April. 'He continued to urge both parties to find ways to de-escalate and offered US assistance in starting constructive talks in order to avoid future conflicts,' State Department Spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, said. Similarly, G7 countries urged maximum restraint and called for direct dialogue between both countries. 'We call for immediate de-escalation and encourage both countries to engage in direct dialogue towards a peaceful outcome,' the group said in a statement. Moreover, China urged both India and Pakistan to avoid escalation. 'We strongly call on both India and Pakistan to give priority to peace and stability, remain calm and restrained, return to the track of political settlement through peaceful means and avoid taking actions that further escalate tensions,' the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Kashmir Attack The ongoing clashes between the two South Asian neighbors started after a deadly attack on April 22 killed 26 tourists in the Indian-administered Kashmir, which Delhi linked to Islamabad. Relations between the two countries rapidly deteriorated, with each taking retaliatory measures against the other. On Wednesday, India launched missile strikes against 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, in retaliation for the Kashmir attack. Since then, the two countries engaged in cross-border fire and shelling, and sent drones and missiles into each other's airspace. Short link : Post Views: 6
India Today
10-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Missile debris found in Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab as Pak ramps up strikes
Missile debris was found in agricultural fields in Sirsa (Haryana), Barmer (Rajasthan), and Jalandhar (Punjab) as Pakistan, for the second consecutive night on Friday, launched swarms of drones and missiles targeting military installations in multiple states along the development coincides with reports that Pakistan fired its Fateh-II surface-to-surface missile at a strategic Indian location, which was intercepted successfully by air defence units in Fateh-II missile has a range of up to 400 km and can carry both conventional and potentially nuclear warheads. "Shortly after midnight, we saw from our terrace that something exploded above us. It formed a red-coloured sphere. In the morning, we saw that it had fallen near a church," a local in Sirsa told the early hours of Saturday, Pakistan launched 'Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos' (solid wall of lead), targeting 26 locations in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat with drones and missiles. Five people, including a senior J&K government official, were killed in artillery shelling.
