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Operation Sindoor targets: Among these panic camps that person been reduced to rubble, 1 of nan astir important targets was Bahawalpur, nan office of JeM. Here's why
As nan federation was asleep, nan Indian equipped forces launched "focused and precise" rocket strikes connected 9 panic sites crossed Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Codenamed Operation Sindoor, nan forces targeted nan panic infrastructure linked to 3 awesome outfits -- Maulana Masood Azhar's Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hafiz Saeed's Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and Syed Salahuddin's Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).
Among these panic camps that person been reduced to rubble, 1 of nan astir important targets was Bahawalpur, nan office of JeM and is situated astir 400 km from Lahore. It houses nan group's operational nervus centre astatine nan Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah. Located astir 100 km from nan world border, Bahawalpur is nan 12th largest metropolis of Pakistan.
Among nan sites targeted by India was nan Jamia Masjid, said to beryllium dispersed crossed ~18 acres and serving arsenic JeM's hub for recruitment, fundraising and indoctrination. The tract was straight linked to nan Pulwama onslaught connected February 14, 2019, and houses elder JeM activity including Maulana Masood Azhar, Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, and Maulana Ammar.
The mosque was funded done nan Al-Rahmat Trust, 1 of nan JeM's frontal organisations. Though presented arsenic a belief seminary successful nan nationalist domain, nan analyzable was softly turned into a ample analyzable pinch training accommodation by 2012.
As per outer imagery accessed by India Today, nan analyzable has a expansive cardinal mosque and a madrassa for much than 600 students. It besides houses a swimming pool, stables for horses, and a gymnasium. Taking down of nan location is besides captious because of its location.
The field is located conscionable a fewer miles distant from Pakistan's 31 Corps subject cantonment, which, reports suggest, is clear grounds of nan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI's) support for nan group.
Not only has nan panic campy successful Bahawalpur been reduced to dust, but 10 family members and adjacent associates of Maulana Masood Azhar were among those killed successful nan precision airstrikes carried retired by nan Indian Armed Forces successful nan wee hours of Wednesday.
In December 1999, 5 terrorists associated pinch nan Harkat-ul-Mujahideen hijacked nan IC-814 formation carrying 190 passengers and unit from Kathmandu to Delhi. The level was diverted to Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai, and yet to Afghanistan's Kandahar nether Taliban control.
In speech for nan hostages, India complied pinch nan terrorists' request to merchandise nan 3 terrorists -- Masood Azhar, Omar Sheikh, and Mushtaq Zargar. Besides this, nan Jaish-e-Mohammed is down respective attacks against India, specified arsenic nan J&K assembly bombing (2001), nan Parliament onslaught (2001), nan Pathankot aerial guidelines onslaught (2016), nan Uri panic onslaught (2016), and nan Pulwama onslaught (2019).
Published on: May 7, 2025 1:18 PM IST
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