In retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed the lives of 26 people, Indian armed forces carried out Operation Sindoor early Wednesday and targeted nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, including the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba's base Muridke. The airstrikes in Bahawalpur has killed ten family members of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, including his sister.
According to information available, Azhar's brother-in-law was among those killed in the early morning strikes.
"10 members of my family got this good fortune together tonight. Five innocent children became the flowers of Jannatul Firdaus. My elder sister Sahiba, dearer than my life, her husband...My nephew Alim Fazil and his wife and my beloved niece Alam Fazila...Our nephew and his wife have become dear to Allah," he said in a statement.
"Modi targeted innocent children, veiled women and elderly people. The grief and shock is so great that it is unbearable. But there is no regret, no disappointment and no fear... It comes to my mind again and again that I too should have been included in these 14 people, but the time of meeting Allah is very fixed, it cannot be earlier or later. There were a total of four children in our house, aged between 7 years to 3 years. All four of them went to heaven together. Quran says that martyrdom is given to those whom Allah loves. This was the time fixed for them to go, but God has given them life and not death...Now this tyranny of Modi has broken all the ways, now no one should expect leniency there," the statement reads.
Indian armed forces on Wednesday carried out 'Operation Sindoor' in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The armed forces carried out missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and PoK, including the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba's base in Muridke. The strike was code-named 'Operation Sindoor'.
India's actions came two weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack triggered widespread outrage in India and abroad.