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, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist 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.
- The targets also included Markaz Subhan Allah at Bahawalpur, Sarjal at Tehra Kalan, Markaz Abbas in Kotli and Syedna Bilal camp in Muzaffarabad, all belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed.
- 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 tourists at Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.