{"id":1964,"date":"2025-05-10T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2025-05-10T05:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:58:02","slug":"pakistan-unleashes-drone-swarm-on-india-civilian-flights-put-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN UNLEASHES DRONE SWARM ON INDIA, CIVILIAN FLIGHTS PUT AT RISK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IAF, Army repel 300\u2013400 drone attacks; India strikes back at Pakistani air defence sites<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Delhi \u2014 The ongoing military standoff between India and Pakistan escalated dramatically last night as Pakistan launched a massive swarm of <strong>300\u2013400 Turkish-origin drones<\/strong> across Indian airspace, targeting military infrastructure and probing India\u2019s air defence systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIndian forces neutralised many drones using kinetic and non-kinetic means,\u201d said Wing Commander Vyomika Singh of the Indian Air Force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to officials, Pakistan recklessly <strong>kept its civil airspace open<\/strong> during the attack, effectively using <strong>civilian airliners as shields<\/strong>, while artillery and drone attacks battered border areas from <strong>Leh to Sir Creek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f <strong>INDIA RESPONDS SWIFTLY<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn armed UAV strike on Bhatinda was thwarted. Indian drones struck back at four Pakistani air defence sites, destroying a radar,\u201d said Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forensic reports suggest the Pakistani drones were <strong>Asisguard Songar models<\/strong> of Turkish origin, used to test Indian defences and gather intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colonel Sofiya Qureshi of the Army condemned Pakistan\u2019s tactics, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPakistan\u2019s irresponsible behaviour put civilian lives at risk. While India closed its airspace as a precaution, Pakistan kept international flights running, knowing fully that retaliation was inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screenshots of <strong>Flightradar24<\/strong> data were presented, showing civil airlines flying between Karachi and Lahore even as the conflict raged near the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udca5 <strong>BORDER UNDER ATTACK<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistani artillery and drones struck <strong>Kandhan, Uri, Poonch, Mender, Rajouri, Akur, and Udhampur<\/strong> in Jammu and Kashmir, causing casualties among Indian troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cPakistan Army also suffered major losses in Indian retaliatory firing,\u201d Qureshi added.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udd25 <strong>OPERATION SINDOOR: THE TRIGGER POINT<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensions have soared since India\u2019s <strong>Operation Sindoor<\/strong> on Wednesday, which targeted terror infrastructure inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s attempted attack on <strong>15 Indian cities<\/strong> since then has been largely <strong>unsuccessful<\/strong>, with the Indian Air Force exercising <strong>\u201cconsiderable restraint\u201d<\/strong> to avoid jeopardizing international civilian flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAF, Army repel 300\u2013400 drone attacks; India strikes back at Pakistani air defence sites New Delhi \u2014 The ongoing military standoff between India and Pakistan escalated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duggarsamvad.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}