Pakistan’s deputy prime minister Ishaq Dar admitted during a television interview that Pakistani forces were compelled to request India for cessation after the latter struck two of its airbases last month during Operation Sindoor. He said India struck Nur Khan Air Base in Rawalpindi and Shorkot Air Base in Punjab.
‘Pakistan had to reach out to US, Saudi Arabia’
The minister further admitted that they had to reach out to the United States and Saudi Arabia’s ministers, who spoke with Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar.
Pak was under tremndous pressure
Dar’s admission on a Pakistani channel shows that there was tremendous pressure on Pakistan, and their leadership was in a huddle to reach anyhow at thaw after seeing India’s response to the Pahalgam terror attack. Nur Khan airbase is considered a strategic airbase, located between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Several videos of the Nur KhanAirbase went viral on social media. The gravity of the Indian strikes displayed how difficult it was for Pakistan’s leadership and media, which has now accepted the damage over some time.
Operation Sindoor
India had launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 in reply to the ghastly terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22. India launched strikes at terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan upped the ante with a series of unprovoked escalations which were effectively repelled by India.
India maintained that the operation is not over and signals a new normal in India’s approach to counter-terrorism, emphasising that Pakistan must accept the new reality and cannot expect business as usual.
