Islamabad, May 7. Pakistan has been put on ‘red alert’ after the Indian Army’s ‘Operation Sindoor’. Government hospitals across the country are ready for any emergency. Also, the airspace has been closed for all domestic and international flights for 24 to 36 hours.
Amid the attacks by the Indian Army, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will address the nation on Wednesday afternoon. He has also called an emergency National Security Committee (NSC) meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence to discuss the current security situation in the country and future action against India.
This important meeting will formulate policy and also consider the intervention of global powers, including the United States, who have called on both sides to exercise restraint and reduce the rapidly escalating tension between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
In fact, after the attack on terrorist hideouts by India, all educational institutions in the capital Islamabad and Punjab province have also been closed and all security forces have been asked to be ready.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhary, Director General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said that at least 26 people have been killed and 46 others injured in the air strikes.
New Delhi said that the air strikes targeted terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Punjab province. India’s attacks and Islamabad’s retaliation have shocked the locals, who fear that this could lead to a full-fledged war between the two countries. These attacks were carried out in response to the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22, in which four terrorists brutally killed 26 civilians.
The strikes by the Indian Army targeted six different locations in Pakistan, including Masjid Subhanallah in Ahmadpur Sharqia area of Bahawalpur city, the alleged hideout of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
Apart from this, several attacks were also carried out in other areas including Muridke, the alleged hideout and headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, besides other places in Muzaffarabad, Kotli and Bagh cities.
