Pakistan on Saturday launched a pre-dawn strike targeting various Indian military installations using drones and missiles, including a Fattah-1 missile.
The Pakistani military named this operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos, after a verse from the Quran, Islam’s sacred book. Bunyan Ul Marsoos, also known as Bunyan-un-Marsoos or Bunyanun Marsoos, translates to “solid wall of lead.”
This latest attack followed Pakistan’s escalation of tensions a day earlier, when it targeted up to 26 locations in India with drones and missiles in response to India’s Operation Sindoor.
Pakistan announced it had launched retaliatory attacks after accusing India of targeting three of its military bases with missiles fired from fighter jets. “India launched a missile attack out of sheer aggression,” stated Pakistani military spokesperson Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, who, according to The Guardian, confirmed that the Nur Khan, Murid and Shorkot bases were struck.
This major escalation followed India’s launch of Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in response to the 22 April Pahalgam terrorist attacks that killed 26 people.
On 7 May 2025, India conducted aerial strikes against nine facilities in Pakistan and PoJK. It was the first time since the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War that India had struck a target in Pakistan’s Punjab province, deep within Pakistani territory. The terror camp in Punjab was located 100 km from the international border.
Operation Sindoor
In response to the Pahalgam terror attacks, the Indian Army launched Operation Sindoor, targeting nine sites in Pakistan and PoJK from which terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed.
In the early hours of 7 May 2025, the Ministry of Defence issued a statement: “The Indian Armed Forces launched ‘Operation Sindoor’, hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed. Altogether, nine sites have been targeted.”
India’s targeted strikes hit terror hubs in Muridke, Kotli, Muzaffarabad and Bahawalpur, resulting in eight deaths and more than 35 injuries. Sialkot, Bahawalpur, Chak Amru and Muridke lie across the international border, while the remaining targets are situated across the Line of Control in PoJK.
