Pakistan Confirms Strikes On Airbases By India, BJP Calls It 'Strategic Validation'
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Pakistan Deputy PM Ishaq Dar has confirmed Indian strikes on Nur Khan and Shorkot airbases during 'Operation Sindoor', acknowledging deeper damage than previously admitted.
In yet another revelation regarding the attack on its airbases, Pakistan has confirmed significant areas in the country were hit during India's 'Operation Sindoor' targeting terror infrastructures there.
Pakistani Deputy PM Ishaq Dar, during a telecast on a local channel, confirmed that India struck the Nur Khan and Shorkot airbases during the retaliatory strikes.
Further, Dar also could be heard claiming that Saudi Prince Faisal bin Salman offered him to inform External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar that Pakistan was 'ready to stop", implying that Pakistan pleaded for support from Saudi Arabia and the United States.
This comes days after Pakistan, on June 4, admitted it suffered more damage than it had earlier acknowledged, during India's 'Operation Sindoor' on the intervening night of May 6 and 7.
At least eight more of Pakistan's locations were struck and damaged in the Indian strikes, a confidential Pakistani dossier on its internal military Operation 'Bunyan un Marsoos' had revealed.
Meanwhile, taking a dig at the Shehbaz Sharif-led country, the Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell chief Amit Malviya wrote on X, 'So now it's official: Pakistan admits it was hit."
'Pakistan admits it ran to both the US and Saudi Arabia, begging India to halt. Pakistan inadvertently admits that Trump wasn't the only one lobbying India — even Riyadh was roped in," Malviya wrote.
'From Balakot to Sindoor, Pakistan's denials continue to collapse under truth bombs. A national security embarrassment for them, a strategic validation for India," he added.
Pakistan continues to unravel under the weight of its own admissions.In a stunning revelation, Pakistani Deputy PM Ishaq Dar has confirmed that India struck the Nur Khan and Shorkot airbases during Operation Sindoor. He went further — claiming that Saudi Prince Faisal bin… pic.twitter.com/yBzsTwpwR6
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) June 19, 2025
On Wednesday, India slammed Pakistan's attempt to 'mischaracterise" 'Operation Sindoor' and said that when a state harbours terrorists who massacre innocents, defensive action is not just a right, but a solemn duty.
'The world sees through Pakistan's theatre of deception," Counsellor at India's Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva Kshitij Tyagi told the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.
He pointed out that Pakistani terrorists turned a serene sanctuary in Jammu and Kashmir into a killing field on April 22, 'carrying out a barbaric execution of 26 Indian tourists in Pahalgam in front of their families."
India launched 'Operation Sindoor' on May 7, targeting terrorist infrastructure in territories controlled by Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
The strikes triggered four days of intense clashes that ended with an understanding on stopping the military actions on May 10.
Among the several punitive measures taken by India after the April 22 Pahalgam attack was putting the 1960 vintage Indus Water Treaty into abeyance, a step hugely criticised by Pakistan.
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