India Fires Six Ballistic Missiles Targeting Its Own Punjab Region: DG ISPR
The DG ISPR added that India is "targeting through its schemes, populations of Sikhs in Indian Punjab"
The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) revealed that India fired six ballistic missiles from Adampur, with one landing in Adampur itself and five others in the general area of Amritsar, Indian Punjab.
Adampur, located in Jalandhar district, is part of Indian Punjab, home to a significant Sikh population.
The DG ISPR added that India is “targeting through its schemes, populations of Sikhs in Indian Punjab,” expressing solidarity with minorities purportedly affected by these internal actions.
Describing the development as “shocking” and “a provocation of the highest order,” the DG ISPR said the missile launches amounted to India targeting its own population.
“This is an act bereft of sanity,” he added.
After these attacks, India targeted 3 Pakistan Air Force bases, DG ISPR briefed the media in the wee hours of Saturday.
The DG ISPR added that the air defence systems of the armed forces have been able to “successfully prevent the desired objectives of India”.
He said the missiles and drone attacks by India on Afghanistan shortly after attacks on the territory of Indian Punjab were “part of a larger sinister plan to push the region and beyond into havoc”.
The DG ISPR maintained that India is “pushing the whole region towards a dangerous war with its madness, aggression and deceit.
“We only want to say to it, we are not a nation to be awestruck by your power, deceit or aggression. Now you just wait for our response,” he asserted.
Federal Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, responding to the development in a statement,said that India of deliberately targeting its own Sikh population with ballistic missile strikes, calling it a “deep conspiracy against minorities”.
Tarar strongly condemned the missile attacks inside India, describing them as “cowardly acts” that had revealed “India’s true face to the world”, adding, “What a shameful act.”
Pakistan has expressed full solidarity with the Sikh community, which it says is being unfairly targeted amid rising domestic tensions in India.
“Pakistan stands with the Sikh community in this difficult time,” he added.
