External affairs ministry to brief media on Operation Sindoor at 1730 IST
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--Foreign min to hold media briefing on Operation Sindoor at 1730 IST Thu
NEW DELHI - The Ministry of External Affairs will hold a special briefing on Operation Sindoor at 1730 IST on Thursday in New Delhi. The briefing comes after the Indian armed forces launched 'Operation Sindoor' in the early hours of Wednesday, striking at nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Earlier Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said Pakistan attempted to engage "a number of military targets" in north and west India Wednesday night using drones and missiles. "These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks," the defence ministry said in a statement, adding that India responded by targeting Air Defence Radars and systems at several locations in Pakistan "in the same domain with same intensity as Pakistan". "It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised."
The defence ministry's statment Thursday also said Pakistan had increased the intensity of its "unprovoked firing" across the Line of Control using mortars and heavy calibre artillery, resulting in the death of 16 people, including three women and five children. "Indian Armed Forces reiterate their commitment to non-escalation, provided it is respected by the Pakistani military," it added.
Earlier, media reports said, quoting Pakistan's military spokesman Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, that Pakistan's army had shot down 12 Indian drones on Thursday. End
IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT
Reported by Kuldeep Singh
Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury
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