Kamal Ghorui
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force targeted terror infrastructure and select military installations in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, but did not strike nuclear site in Kirana Hills, Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor said on Wednesday.Responding to questions about videos circulating online that purportedly show attacks on Pakistan’s Kirana Hills, Kapoor said the IAF’s operations were limited to identified terror and military targets.
“We attacked terror infrastructure and several of their (Pakistan’s) military installations. This is absolutely true,” Kapoor said.“If you see any video, whether it’s from open sources, or generated by them, or what they’re trying to portray, we don’t know. Whether we did something, or whether the explosion was caused by an insurgency there, or by what weapon, we don’t know about all this,” he added.“But these videos (of Kirana Hills) were presented by their people; they made them; we did nothing. We only struck terror and military installations,” the Vice Air Chief said.The IAF has maintained that its actions were aimed at dismantling terror infrastructure and degrading military capabilities linked to cross-border threats.During a press briefing on the operation last year, Air Marshal AK Bharti, then Director General of Air Operations, had said India had not struck Kirana Hills. Th IAF put out a video on Republic Day showing the Pakistan’s nuclear base in Sargodha getting hit, accompanied by footage of Indian jets — Rafale, Sukhoi, Jaguar and Tejas — and the words “the enforcers of peace”.However, when asked about the video, IAF maintained that it stood by the official version.
