Overview
- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said India targeted Nur Khan Air Base in Rawalpindi’s Chaklala during the May exchanges, causing damage and injuring personnel.
- Dar stated that India sent about 80 drones over 36 hours and that Pakistan intercepted 79, with one drone hitting a military installation.
- He placed the strike in the early hours of May 10 after Pakistan’s leadership met on May 9 to decide responses to the unfolding situation.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had previously acknowledged that Indian ballistic missiles hit Nur Khan and other sites on May 10.
- Commercial satellite images from mid‑May showed damage at several Pakistani air bases, including Nur Khan, Mushaf (Sargodha), Bholari, and Shahbaz (Jacobabad), as India framed its actions as part of Operation Sindoor after the April 22 Pahalgam attack; Pakistan’s DGMO later proposed a ceasefire that India accepted.