India Appears To Have Had Clear Edge In Targeting Pak’: NYT Report

New York:

India appears to have had a “clear edge” in targeting Pakistan’s military facilities and airfields during the recent four-day confrontation, the New York Times reported, citing satellite images. High-resolution satellite imagery, from before and after the strikes, shows “clear damage” to Pakistan’s facilities by Indian attacks, according to the report.

“The four-day military clash between India and Pakistan was the most expansive fighting in half a century between the two nuclear-armed countries. As both sides used drones and missiles to test each other’s air defences and hit military facilities, they claimed to inflict severe damage,” the report said.

It added that satellite imagery indicates that while the attacks were widespread, the damage was far more contained than claimed – “and appeared mostly inflicted by India on Pakistani facilities.” In the new age of high-tech warfare, the report said that strikes by both sides, verified by the imagery, appeared to be precisely targeted.

“Where India appears to have had a clear edge is in its targeting of Pakistan’s military facilities and airfields, as the latter stretch of fighting shifted from symbolic strikes and shows of force to attacks on each other’s defence capabilities,” the report said.