India Thwarts Pakistan’s Misadventure to Attack Military Installations in 10 Cities, Neutralise Lahore Air Defence Radar
Manas Dasgupta
NEW DELHI, May 8: India has thwarted Pakistan’s attempts late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning to target military installations in 15 cities in the northern and western regions parts of the country including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and Gujarat, and in turn has neutralised Pakistan’s air defence radar in Lahore, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday.
The government said Indian forces responded by targeting and neutralising Pakistani Air Defence Radars and systems in several locations, including Lahore and Rawalpindi, in response to Pak attempts to attack military facilities in Srinagar, Pathankot, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, and other locations.
Indian forces’ response was “in the same domain (and) with the same intensity” as the attacks launched by Pakistan. Pak forces used drones and missiles that were disabled by India’s air defence systems. Pakistan later confirmed the response, showing parts of India’s drones. They also confirmed the Lahore attack stating four were injured.
“On the night of 07-08 May 2025, 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 Ministry of Defence said.
Sources said HARPY drones were used by India to destroy Pakistan air defence while India then used the Russian-made S-400 defence system to shoot down missiles aimed at its cities. The debris of these destroyed drones and missiles from these attacks are being collected from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks and will add to the volume of evidence supporting India’s charges that Pakistan supports cross-border terrorism targeting India, the government said.
Attempted military action against India comes a day after Indian armed forces’ carried out precision strikes at four terrorist camps in Pak and five in PoK.
India early on Wednesday launched “Operation Sindoor” targeting nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to avenge the killing of 26 tourists in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22. The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had claimed responsibility for the killings.
The strikes were on facilities in Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Sialkot, Barnala and Bahawalpur that were instrumental in the infiltration of Lashkar, Hizbul and JeM terrorists into India.
