Pakistan Claims 75-80 Indian Jets Involved In Attack, Army Had Inputs Of Strike

<p data-pm-slice=”0 0 []”>Hours after India carried out Operation Sindoor, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif claimed that 80 fighter jets of India had struck at six places including AJK, Bahawalpur, Shakargarh and Sialkot. He claimed that Pakistan army foiled India’s attack and he praised the Pakistani Air Force. Sharif further claimed that the Pakistani army had inputs about this attack.</p>
<p>The statement by Sharif comes after Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had earlier revealed that 75 to 80 Indian Air Force jets participated in the attack on Pakistan. He emphasized that had the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) been given full operational freedom, the outcome would have been drastically different.</p>
<p>According to Daily Times, Dar said that Pakistan stayed true to its commitment to peace. He stressed that Pakistan had always promised not to initiate conflict, and this stance was maintained even during this attack. However, he noted that India clearly violated peace by launching a large-scale air offensive.</p>
<p>The Deputy PM of Pakistan also described how the confrontation lasted nearly one hour across the Line of Control (LoC) and the international border. Dar also claimed that five Indian fighter jets and two drones were shot down.</p>
<p>Indian destroyed nine terrorist infrastructure including that of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in a 25-minute-long measured and non-escalatory missile and drone strike early Wednesday.</p>
<p>Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said India decided to carry out the proportionate strikes to bring the perpetrators and planners of the April 22 Pahalgam attack to justice as there was no demonstrable step from Pakistan to act against terrorist infrastructure on territories under its control.</p>
<p>Misri said India’s actions were in line with the UN Security Council’s statement about holding perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of the Pahalgam terror attack accountable.</p>
<p>Under ‘<a title=”Operation Sindoor” href=”https://news.abplive.com/topic/operation-sindoor” data-type=”interlinkingkeywords”>Operation Sindoor</a>’, the Indian military targeted Markaz Taiba of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Muridke, Markaz Subhan Allah of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in Bahawalpur and Hizbul Mujahideen’s Mehmoona Joya Facility in Sialkot and LeT’s base in Markaz Ahle Hadith in Barnala and its camp in Muzaffarabad’s Shawai Nalla, military officials said as quoted by news agency PTI.</p>