New Delhi:
The nine targets struck under ‘Operation Sindoor’ in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) also included Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) training camps linked to the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the Indian Army said today.
- The Operation Sindoor targets included Markaz Taiba Muridke in Pakistan, where Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists behind the Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead in 2008, and David Headley, the mastermind of the attack, took training, Army Colonel Sofiya Qureshi said during a media briefing on the Indian strikes.
- While Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist among the Pakistani group, was hanged to death in Pune in 2012, Headley is currently in a jail in the US.
- The missile strikes were also launched at the headquarters of banned terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen, Colonel Qureshi said.
- The other targets included Sarjal camp in Sialkot, Markaz Ahle Hadith, Barnala and Markaz Abbas, Kotli and Mehmoona Joya camp, Sialkot.
- Out of the nine targets, four were in Pakistan and the other five were in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir.
- The Operation Sindoor was launched to avenge the killing of 26 people at Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.
