'India Appears To Have Had A Clear Edge In Targeting Pakistan’s Military': NYT Report

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Last Updated:May 14, 2025, 21:45 IST

India appears to person had a "clear edge" successful targeting Pakistan's subject facilities and airfields during the fourday confrontation, the New York Times reported.

Indian strikes present monolithic stroke to Pakistan's aerial bases | Image/ANI

India appears to person had a “clear edge" successful targeting Pakistan’s subject facilities and airfields during the caller four-day confrontation, the New York Times reported, citing outer images.

High-resolution outer imagery, from earlier and aft the strikes, shows “clear damage" to Pakistan’s facilities by Indian attacks, according to the report.

“The four-day subject clash betwixt India and Pakistan was the astir expansive warring successful fractional a period betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed countries. As some sides utilized drones and missiles to trial each other’s aerial defences and deed subject facilities, they claimed to inflict terrible damage," the study said.

It added that outer imagery indicates that portion the attacks were widespread, the harm was acold much contained than claimed — “and appeared mostly inflicted by India connected Pakistani facilities." In the caller property of high-tech warfare, the study said that strikes by some sides, verified by the imagery, appeared to beryllium precisely targeted.

“Where India appears to person had a wide borderline is successful its targeting of Pakistan’s subject facilities and airfields, arsenic the second agelong of warring shifted from symbolic strikes and shows of unit to attacks connected each other’s defence capabilities," the study said.

At Bholari aerial base, located little than 100 miles from the Pakistani larboard metropolis of Karachi, India’s defence officials said they had struck an craft hangar with a precision attack. “The visuals showed wide harm to what looks similar a hangar," the NYT study said.

Further, the Nur Khan aerial base, wrong a astir 15-mile scope of some the Pakistani Army’s office and the bureau of the country’s premier curate and a abbreviated region from the portion that oversees and protects Pakistan’s atomic arsenal, was “perhaps the astir delicate subject people that India struck." The Indian subject said it had peculiarly targeted the runways and different facilities astatine immoderate of Pakistan’s cardinal aerial bases and “satellite images showed the damage", the study said, noting that connected May 10, Pakistan issued a announcement for the Rahim Yar Khan aerial basal saying that the runway was not operational.

At Sargodha aerial base, successful Punjab Province successful Pakistan, the Indian subject said it had utilized precision weapons to onslaught 2 sections of the runway.

“Satellite images of the sites Pakistan claimed to person deed are limited, and truthful acold bash not intelligibly amusement harm caused by Pakistani strikes adjacent astatine bases wherever determination was corroborating grounds of immoderate subject action." On the Pakistani officials’ assertion that their forces had “destroyed" India’s Udhampur aerial base, the NYT study said “an representation from May 12 does not look to amusement damage." India carried retired precision strikes nether ‘Operation Sindoor’ connected panic infrastructure aboriginal connected May 7 successful effect to the April 22 Pahalgam panic onslaught that killed 26 people.

Following the Indian action, Pakistan attempted to onslaught Indian subject bases connected May 8, 9 and 10. The Indian equipped forces launched a fierce counter-attack connected respective Pakistani subject installations, including Rafiqui, Murid, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur and Chunian.

Radar sites astatine Pasrur and Sialkot aviation basal were besides targeted utilizing precision munitions, causing monolithic damage.

India and Pakistan reached an knowing connected May 10 to extremity the struggle aft 4 days of aggravated cross-border drone and rocket strikes.

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