It Was All Over Within 26 Mins

Over the last three decades, Pakistan has systematically built terror infrastructure. COLONEL SOFIYA QURESHI, Corps of Signals

- Rahul Singh and Rezaul H Laskar

NEW DELHI: It took the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force only 26 minutes to bomb to smithereens nine targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan that were carefully selected based on hard intelligence and their nefarious track record of perpetrating terror activities, the forces said on Wednesday.

Two officials -- one from the army and another from the air force -- gave granular details in an official briefing on Operation Sindoor on Wednesday, mounted two weeks after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack killed 26 people. The mission began at 1.04 am. India demonstrated considerable restraint in its response to the Pahalgam strike, but the armed forces are fully prepared to respond to any Pakistani misadventure aimed at escalating the situation, said helicopter pilot Wing Commander Vyomika Singh. The five terror training camps targeted with precision weapons across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir were between nine and 30 km inside PoK, while the four targets on the other side of the international border (IB) six to 100 km inside Pakistan.

The cross-border strikes by India weren't unexpected.