India’s emergency response preparedness amid escalating tensions with Pakistan, full-scale civil defence mock drills are being conducted across the country on Wednesday. The Ministry of Home Affairs had directed all the states and union territories on Monday to conduct the drills to check whether they’re prepared against “new and complex threats”.
The direction on Monday came as India prepared to strike terror posts in Pakistan along the Line of Control (LOC) on the intervening night of Tuesday-Wednesday under Operation Sindoor. The strikes came as a sharp response to the terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 people, mostly terrorists. Under Operation Sindoor, which caught Pakistan unawares, the Indian armed forces launched “focused strikes” on nine terrorist sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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Meanwhile, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak has termed India’s attack on the ‘terrorist infrastructure’ in Pakistan as ‘justified’. Prime Minister Starmer has appealed for peace. Apart from the UK, other countries, including China, Russia, Israel have also reacted.
Contrarily, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye and Azerbaijan on Wednesday issued separate statements in support of Pakistan after India conducted ‘Operation Sindoor’ – targeting “terror infrastructure” in the neighbouring country.
Turkiye’s foreign affairs ministry posted a statement on X, saying, “We are following the developments between Pakistan and India with concern. The attack carried out by India last night (6 May) raises the risk of an all-out war. We condemn such provocative steps as well as attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
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