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Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Following PM Modi's footsteps, Shehbaz Sharif visits cantonment in Sialkot
A day after Prime minister Narendra Modi visited the Adampur air base post Operation Sindoor, his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif visited the Pasrur Cantonment in Sialkot on Wednesday and interacted with officers and soldiers. According to an official release, Sharif met with officers and soldiers who participated in the 'Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos' against India, a retaliation for New Delhi's Operation Sindoor. The Pakistani premier was accompanied by deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Army Chief General Asim Munir, Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu, Federal Ministers Ahsan Iqbal and Attaullah Tarar, Corps Commander Sialkot, and senior civil and military leadership. Sharif also addressed the officers and soldiers present and plans to visit other air bases and naval bases to meet officers and personnel of the Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Navy, the release said. Also read | With S-400 in backdrop, PM Modi's salute at Adampur air base junks Pakistan's claims Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to the Adampur Air Base in Punjab on Tuesday morning and interacted with the Indian Air Force personnel who played a crucial role in successfully thwarting Pakistan's attempt to strike civilian and military installations. 'The leaders of terrorism have understood that there will be only one result of raising eyes towards India, destruction... there will be only one result of shedding the blood of innocent people... destruction and great destruction... the terrorists were sitting under the protection of the Pakistani army... the Indian army made Pakistani army bite the dust,' PM Modi said. Also read | What is Bhargavastra? India's indigenous system to counter drone swarms Pakistan's Punjab province Information Minister Azma Bukhari on Wednesday claimed that military action against India was designed under the supervision of the ruling PML-N party president Nawaz Sharif. 'The whole operation against India was designed under the supervision of former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif. It was Nawaz Sharif who made Pakistan a nuclear power and now designed the whole operation against India,' Bukhari claimed. (With PTI inputs)
Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- General
- Hindustan Times
‘Happy beyond words': Air Marshal AK Bharti's father on knowing his son's role during Operation Sindoor
Jeevachhlal Yadav, 85, father of Air Marshal AK Bharti, director general air operations (DGAO), is a proud man after his son played a critical role in planning and executing the Indian Air Force's (IAF) operations against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. 'People are either calling up or dropping by to congratulate us. We are happy beyond words and on cloud nine for what my son has done for the country,' Yadav told HT. The octogenarian was unaware of his son's heroics until his neighbours asked him to watch the officer's press briefing last Sunday evening. Yadav still regrets missing the first few minutes of the press conference and continues to stay glued to the news channels, hoping to see his son again. 'He did not tell me anything when he called up and spoke to me last week. He could have at least told me that he would be on TV. I would have watched the programme from the beginning,' Yadav said. The man also said the officer was 'brilliant' since childhood and never took private tuition, from his schooling to joining the National Defence Academy (NDA), Pune. Mithilesh Kumar (48), the second of the three siblings in the family, stated how his brother does not discuss anything about his work. 'Though my brother regularly calls up, he never discusses anything about what he is doing. It's easier to talk to bhabhi (Sangeeta Bharti), who hails from Kashmir and was a short service commission officer in the IAF before she got married to bhaiya in 1996,' said Kumar, who works at a pharmaceutical firm. AK Bharti joined the flying branch in 1987. Over 20 years of dedicated service, he achieved many key milestones. He is a Fighter Combat Leader and has completed training at the Defence Services Staff College. He served as the Flight Commander of a Sukhoi-30MK squadron and also worked at Air Headquarters as Joint Director of Air Defence Operations. He was awarded the 'Three Stars' for safe flying, showing outstanding performance, and received a commendation from the Chief of the Air Staff in 1997 for his dedication to duty. He was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal in September 2023. India launched Operation Sindoor targeting high-profile terrorists and terror infrastructure in Pakistan as a retaliation for the April 22 attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians. Tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours soared for days as Pakistan launched 'Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos' targeting civilian and military sites in India, which was successfully thwarted by the Indian armed forces. (With inputs from Ruchir Kumar/Aditya Nath Jha)
