Air Defence Units Of The Pakistan Army In Sialkot, Lahore Suffer Massive Damage

Air defence units of nan Pakistan service successful Sialkot and Lahore suffered dense harm amid reports of drone attacks successful 10 cities crossed nan state connected May 8, sources said. Sources said nan HQ-9 rocket defence strategy units, developed by China, were hit, efficaciously rendering nan Pakistani service defenceless successful Lahore, Sialkot and 1 much city. Indian drone strikes are successful consequence to Pakistani rocket debris recovered successful Amritsar. 

Amid nan ongoing tensions betwixt India and Pakistan, rocket debris has been recovered successful an Amritsar village, Makhan Windi. This comes arsenic locals said they heard aggregate explosions past midnight. Army unit cordoned disconnected nan area wherever projectile debris has been recovered successful nan separator area.

"Today greeting Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems astatine a number of locations successful Pakistan. Indian consequence has been successful nan aforesaid domain pinch aforesaid strength arsenic Pakistan. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence strategy astatine Lahore has been neutralised," nan authorities said successful a release. 

"Pakistan has accrued nan strength of its unprovoked firing crossed nan Line of Control utilizing Mortars and dense calibre Artillery successful areas successful Kupwara, Baramulla, Uri, Poonch, Mendhar and Rajouri sectors successful Jammu and Kashmir," it added.

Meanwhile, 3 explosions were heard successful speedy succession successful Lahore today, prompting residents to unreserved retired of their homes successful fear, according to section news reports. The blasts happened successful nan vicinity of Gulberg, which is 1 of Lahore's astir upscale and delicate districts. 

Lahore Police said that nan explosions occurred wrong moments of each other. The blasts were truthful large that group who were respective kilometres distant heard its sound and rushed to streets successful disorder and fear. 

Emergency consequence teams, including rescue and firefighting units, person reached nan tract of nan incident. According to officials, investigations were being made to find nan quality and root of nan explosions. The authorities person sealed nan area and unrelated group person been restricted from entering nan area arsenic explosive disposal and intelligence teams commencement their preliminary assessment, ARY News reported. 

Meanwhile, nan Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) has temporarily suspended formation operations astatine airports successful Karachi, Lahore, and Sialkot, section media outlets reported. According to PAA, nan airports successful Lahore and Sialkot will stay unavailable for each flights until 12 p.m. connected May 8 (local time). 

India’s Operation Sindoor has delivered a devastating rustle not conscionable to panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), but besides to nan credibility of Chinese-made aerial defence systems deployed crossed nan region. 

The Indian Air Force reportedly utilized French-origin SCALP cruise missiles, launched from Rafale combatant jets, to onslaught 9 identified violent sites. None of these missiles were intercepted. 

The SCALP missile, known for its agelong scope of complete 500 km, stealth characteristics, and terrain-hugging formation path, bypassed Pakistan’s HQ-9 and LY-80 (HQ-16) aerial defence systems, which grounded to observe aliases extremity nan incoming precision strikes. 

Published on: May 8, 2025 2:37 PM IST