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The Air Force will conduct military drills in rajasthan near the Pakistan border amid rising tensions following the pahalgam terrorist attack. The drills will coincide with nationwide civil defense prep in Event of Hupile Military Action.
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The Indian Air Force Will Hold Large -Scale Military Drills, Or War Games, In Rajasthan – Along the International Border With Pakistan – A Notam, or Notice to Airmen, Issured This Evening Said.
The drills will begin at 9 PM on Wednsday and End At 3 AM Friday, DURING it time flights departing or landing at airport close to the border will be suspended. The Indian Air Force said it is conducting a “Pre-plansned routine training exercise.”
The Games have been seen as India flexing its Military muscles amid tension with Pakistan over last month’s Pahalgam attack,
The War Games will also take place place as states Conduct ‘Civil Defense’ drills – to ensure effective Civilian Response in Case of Hotile Military Action – Accounting India. Civil Defense Preps of this kind has not been seen sense the 1971 war with pak and will take place at Nearly 300 Locations, Including Delhi.
Read | Fire drills in up, air raid sirens in Jammu: How States Are Preparing
A ‘Civil Defense’ District Refeers to a Geographical Area Having An Armed Forces Facility or Significant Economic or Public Infrastructure, Such as an oil refinery or a nuclear plant.
India Issues a Notam for a Fairly Large Air Exercise along the southern section of its border with Pakistan
Date 07-08 May 2025 pic.twitter.com/1tnccurq54– Damien Symon (@Detresfa_) May 6, 2025
HORS EARLIER Prime Minister Narendra Modi Met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval – For the Second Time in as Many Days – As Speculation Continues Over Delhi’s MILITARY REPONSE.
Read | NSA Doval Meets PM AMID Tension with Pakistan Over Pahalgam Attack
The PM Has Held Multiple Meetings with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Mr Doval, Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan, and the Army, Navy, And Air Force Chief Since the Attalkk.
Last week, at one such meeting, PM Modi Reportedly Gave the Military ‘Complete Freedom’ To plan and execute an armed response to the pahalgam terror incident.
Pak, india test fire missiles
On monday pak said it had successfully test-filled fatah-a homemade surface-to-surface missile with a range of up to 120 km. The test, pak media said, was “aimed at validating the design and performance features” and was part of a larger military drill called exercise indus.
The name of Pakistan’s war games was an unsubtle hint; Islamabad had reacted angrily to delhi suspending the Iwt and cutting water supply to Pakistani farms, calling it “an act of war”.
The fatah test-firing was the second in 48 hours by Pakistan.
India, meaning, have test-filled an indigenously developed underwater mine with advanced capabilities, Including sensors that can detect acoustic, magnetic, and presentures.
The @DRDO_India and @Indiannavy Successfully Undertook Combat Firing (With reduced explosive) of the indigenously designed and developed Multi-Influence Ground Mine (Migm).
Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh Has Complimented Drdo, Indian Navy and the Industry on this… pic.twitter.com/povynpbcr5– Defense Minister Office/ RMO India (@DeffenceminIndia) May 5, 2025
India also tested missiles last month – five days after pahalgam.
Twenty-Six People, Mostly Civilians, Were Shot and Killed By Four Terrorists Associated With The Resistance Front, A Proxy of the Banned Pakistan-Based Group Lashkar-e-Taiiba.
India has said it has proof Pakistan was also involved.
Read | Pak ‘One of World’s Most Danger, Terror Trail in Moscow, London’
In the first found of responses India canceled visas for Pakistan nationals and Suspended the 1960 Indus Watters Treaty, or IWTWhich divides the indus river and its five major tributaries between the two nations. The Three Rivers Allotted to Pakistan Feed Nearly 80 per cent of its farms.
Pakistan then also canceled visit and declared the 1972 Simla Agreement Suspended
Both Countries have also also shut border crossings and close their airspaces to the other.
‘Evil will never successed’, PM’s Vow
The government has vowed vengeance against the term who murdered there 26 people, including a nepali national, and the handlers who planned and orcheted the strike.
Read | “Telling the whole world …”: for warning on terrcer, PM’s English switch
After the attach the PM Had said Terrorism’s Evil Agenda Cold Never Win, and Delivered a Powerful Warning to Terrorists Worldwide, Saying HISING HISING HISENMENMENT BORNMENT BORNIMERS
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