Pakistan claims strike on Indian missile site

Pakistan has launched a military operation named “Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos” targeting India and has claimed to have struck a BrahMos missile storage site in the Jammu region, reports The Gaurdian.

No immediate confirmation has been provided by Indian authorities regarding the alleged strike.

According to Radio Pakistan, Pakistan is claiming that its Armed Forces have also destroyed Brigade Headquarters, “K G Top”, while a supply depot in Uri has also been completely ruined. Through a cyber attack, 70% of India’s electricity grid has been made dysfunctional, it claims.

Pakistan said the retaliation strikes targeted Indian army infrastructure and bases, including Pathankot military air field and the BrahMos missile storage site in the Indian state of Punjab as well as Udhampur air force base in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Explosions and shelling from anti-aircraft guns was heard in the vicinity of all the sites. Loud explosions were also heard in the Indian-Kashmir city of Srinagar.

Military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, in a live broadcast aired by state television in the middle of the night, said India had “attacked with missiles” targeting three air bases. One of the bases targeted is Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, the garrison city where the army is headquartered. It is around 10 kilometres (6 miles) from the capital, Islamabad.

The South Asian countries have exchanged fire since Wednesday, when India launched air strikes on terrorist sites in Pakistani territory after a deadly attack on tourists on the Indian side of the divided Kashmir region.

The clashes — which have involved missiles, drones, and exchanges of fire along the de facto border in disputed Kashmir — are the worst in decades and have killed more than 50 civilians.