08-05-2025
Visuals show LeT's Muridke Markaz Taiba reduced to rubble after Operation Sindoor
Markaz Taiba Muridke camp bombed
Markaz Taiba
India's precision strike on Markaz Taiba Lashkar-e-Taiba 's (LeT) training centre in Muridke of Pakistan's Punjab, has turned the facility into visuals obtained by news agency Reuters show the terror infrastructure completely damaged after the strikes by Indian to Usman Jaleesm, additional deputy commissioner of Sheikhupura district under which Muridke falls, India targeted the Lashkar premises with four attacks in a span of less than 10 minutes, destroying four said, "Around midnight, the first two missiles were fired by India in the premises, and the other two attacks were carried out after a brief gap. The four attacks were carried out in less than ten minutes. Four buildings have been demolished, one is the admin block and the mosque, and additionally two residences."Another local resident said, "Fear spread among the people, people went out into the fields, into open spaces, this is how the night passed in fear."India, on early Wednesday, launched precision strikes at the terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Under " Operation Sindoor ," nine sites, including Markaz Taiba, were targeted and successfully the nine sites, four are in Pakistan and five in PoK. The targets, linked to LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen, were hit with meticulous planning to avoid civilian Markaz Taiba in Muridke, is the most important training centre of LeT. The complex holds arms and physical training facilities, as well as "dawa'h" and radicalisation for terror entities both from within Pakistan and enrols around 1,000 students in different courses annually. All the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, including Ajmal Kasab, were imparted "Daura-e-Ribbat'" (intelligence training) at this facility. David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the prime conspirators of the Mumbai attacks, had visited Muridke on the instructions of terrorist Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Lashkar's was recently extradited from the United States to India.
