Launched multiple attacks on Pakistan border posts: BSF

Border Security Forces on Tuesday said it launched a coordinated attack on multiple border posts of Pakistan along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir as part of Operation Sindoor, including an attack on Lashkar-e-Taiba launchpad in Looni region of Pakistan, where it suspected the presence of 18 to 20 terrorists.

BSF officials informed that they inflicted maximum damage on the Pakistani side as they targeted their 76 border outposts and 42 forward defence locations from May 7 to May 10.

"BSF's domination strategy was aggressive. Both men and women in BSF played critical and brave roles from the start of Operation Sindoor on May 7," said Shashank Anand, inspector general of Border Security Force, Jammu Frontier. He added that on the night of May 8, electronic surveillance equipment observed that in Pakistan's Sialkot, opposite to Samba, a group was coming close to the international border with the intention to infiltrate or target our posts. "We executed pre-emptive strikes and surprised the enemy and after that Pakistani posts started firing on our posts but we damaged several posts of Pakistan and didn't suffer any damage," said Anand.

During the intervening night of May 9 and 10, BSF said it observed the presence of another group of people in Looni, which is just 3 km from the IB in Jammu division. "We targeted the LeT launch pad in Looni where we had inputs of the presence of 18 to 20 militants. They would have infiltrated and later operated in the hinterland. We maintained the surprise element and attacked from four different directions with mortar shells and simultaneously started a fire assault," said Virender Dutta, DIG BSF, Sundarbani sector of Jammu. The two-phased coordinated attacks, Dutta said, were to inflict maximum casualty on the other side.