Lahore: Operation Sindoor, which destroyed several terror hubs, still stings our Pakistan.
Two months after India’s Armed forces launched a targeted attack on nine leading terror facilities in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to avenge the Pahalgam massacre, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif continued to criticise New Delhi’s decision.
Terming the Pahalgam terror attack as ‘unfortunate’, Sharif accused India of using it to destabilise regional peace through.
“The unprovoked and reckless Indian hostility directed towards Pakistan after an unfortunate incident in Jammu and Kashmir was yet another attempt to destabilise regional peace,” Sharif said at the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) Summit in Azerbaijan, which backed Pakistan during Operation Sindoor.
He also raised the Kashmir issue, condemning ‘barbaric acts’ against innocent people in the Union Territory, and clubbing it with happenings in Gaza and Iran.
“Pakistan stands firmly against those who perpetrate barbaric acts against innocent people anywhere in the world, whether in Gaza, Kashmir, or Iran,” Sharif said.
In one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Kashmir in recent years, 25 tourists and a local – all men – were shot dead in front of their family members — in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley on April 22.
Blaming Pakistan for sheltering and sponsoring terrorists, India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7.
Pakistan retaliated with a wave of drone and missile attacks on several Indian towns in the border states of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and Gujarat. India’s robust air defence system effectively countered the offensive. India responded with massive strikes on multiple Pakistani military bases, following which Pakistan reached out for a ceasefire.
The four-day military conflict finally ended on May 10.
