Operation Sindoor: As Indo-pak Tensions Hit Peak Fever, Ex-pakistan Pm Nawaz Sharif Reaches Brother Shehbaz's Office

Nawaz Sharif, nan erstwhile Prime Minister of Pakistan, connected Thursday, reached nan incumbent Prime Minister and his relative Shehbaz Sharif's agency successful Islamabad for an important meeting. The improvement comes arsenic nan ties betwixt Pakistan and India worsen pursuing India's Operation Sindoor connected Wednesday. 

Meanwhile, an important gathering pinch apical subject officials is underway successful Pakistan to talk nan existent situation. The hectic parleys astatine Pakistan's PMO travel astatine a clip erstwhile sirens went disconnected successful Islamabad. 

Given nan uncertain business that Pakistan finds itself in, nan country's banal speech plunged by much than 6 per cent connected Thursday arsenic trading was halted for an hr aft rumours of nan escalation of India's subject action adjacent Karachi. 

Before trading was halted for an hour, Pakistan banal exchange's benchmark KSE100 scale went down 6,948.73 points aliases 6.32 per cent to 1,03,060.30. 

Meanwhile, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh praised nan Indian Armed Forces for nan precision pinch which Operation Sindoor, a bid of strikes that took down 9 panic camps successful Pakistan, was executed. 

Calling nan strikes "unimaginable and very praiseworthy," he said: "Nine violent camps were destroyed successful it and a ample number of terrorists were killed. This cognition was carried retired without harming immoderate guiltless and pinch minimum collateral damage."

He besides said that nan measurement Operation Sindoor was carried retired pinch minimum collateral damage, without harming guiltless civilians, was imaginable because nan "formidable and professionally trained" Indian Armed Forces had precocious value equipment. 

Moreover, nan Chinese Foreign Ministry said that it was "not acquainted pinch nan matter" erstwhile questioned connected nan engagement of Chinese jets successful nan India-Pakistan conflict, arsenic per news agency Reuters. 

Previously, Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said successful nan National Assembly that he himself informed nan Chinese squad of really Islamabad struck down Indian craft pinch nan thief of jets fixed to Pakistan by China. 

Published on: May 8, 2025 4:19 PM IST