The Air Force carried out strikes against targets near Karachi in Pakistan, Air Marshal AK Bharti, the Director-General of Operations for the IAF indicated in a special briefing Sunday evening.
Air Marshal Bharti said part of India's "measured and calibrated" response to Pak aggression - i.e., the drone and missile strikes, and small arms fire and artillery shelling across the border - was the targeting of military installations, including a surface-to-air missile site at Malir Cantonment in Karachi.
Malir Cantt. is a military base about 35km from the city of Karachi. Click here for India Pakistan Ceasefire Live Updates
The Air Force also targeted a radar site in Lahore (likely the Chinese-made HQ-9 knocked by Israeli-made HARPY drones) and another close to Gujranwala in Pak's Punjab province, he said.
News the Air Force successfully targeted Pak military installations near Karachi follows confirmation Sunday of the Navy's role in Operation Sindoor - which was India's military response to the Pahalgam terror attack by a proxy of Pak-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, India linked the attack to the Pak deep state.
The Navy's carrier battle groups, submarines, and aviation assets, Vice Admiral AN Pramod said, had been deployed outside the harbour in Karachi to pin down Pak maritime forces.
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The Indian Navy, he said, remained in a "deterrent posture with full readiness and capacity to strike select targets at sea and on land, including Karachi, at a time of our choosing".
This, Vice Admiral Pramod said "compelled Pakistani naval and air units to be in a defensive posture, mostly inside harbours or very close to the coast..." for the duration of the conflict.
The Navy played a deterant role in the tri-service Operation Sindoor on Pak (File).
Operation Sindoor was a 25-minute precision strike, launched 1.05 am on May 7, against four terrorist camps in Pakistan and five in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Over 100 terrorists were killed and terror infrastructure was disabled, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had said.
The strike provoked a military counter-attack from Pakistan; waves of drones and missiles were fired at military establishments and facilities in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, and Punjab, leading to air raid sirens and blackouts in cities like Chandigarh, Jaisalmer, and Pathankot.
Both sides also accused each other of targeting civilian populations. Three civilians were injured in Punjab's Ferozepur in a drone attack, while a government official in J&K's Rajouri also died.
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The two also downed fighter jets from each side; India reportedly hit a United States-made F-16 and a Chinese JF-17, while Pak claimed, incorrectly, it hit one of the IAF's new French Rafales.
Over the next three nights the two countries' air defences worked overtime, intercepting and neutralising missiles fired by the other side. India launched in Rafiqui, Murid, Chaklala and Rahim Yar Khan.
The Air Force also said bases like Sagodha and Bholari - at which F-16s and JF-17s were deployed - had been hit. This, the Air Marshal was about 20 per cent of the PAF's infrastructure.
Satellite images were released to show the damage caused at terror camps in Pak and PoK.
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In response, India said, Pak attacks caused "limited damage... to equipment and personnel at air bases at Udhampur (in J&K), Pathankot and Adampur (in Punjab) and Bhuj (in Gujarat)".
About 100 hours into the conflict the two sides settled on a ceasefire last week facilitated by US President Donald Trump's administration. The peace has held since, though Pak did violate terms in hours immediately following its announcement.
India has warned Pakistan that violations will incur a more forceful military response.
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Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has given bases along India's western borders permission to launch counteraction if the ceasefire is violated.
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