Operation Sindoor: Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar says 10 of his family and 4 aides killed
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar said in a post on Operation Sindoor that 10 members of his family and 4 aides have been killed
New Delhi: Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar has said in a post on social media that ten members of his family and as many as four aides have been killed following Operation Sindoor.
In a post the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief wrote in Urdu which roughly means that as may as 10 of his family members were killed in the Bahawalpur airstrikes that was carried out on May 6, 2025.
He has further described the attack as an assault by India on his home, targeting civilians, including women and children, and called it a “cowardly act.” He further mentioned in the post that, a funeral for the deceased shall be held in the evening.
The Indian Armed Forces on Wednesday, provided detailed insights into Operation Sindoor, a precision strike operation launched to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in retaliation for the April 22, 2025, Pahalgam terror attack.
Addressing a press briefing in the national capital hours after the targeted strikes by India, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh outlined the objectives of the operation. A total of nine terror sites in Pakistan including five in PoK linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) were targeted with meticulous planning to avoid civilian casualties. (ANI)
