Experts Say India Hit The Entrances Of Kirana Hills, IAF Denies
By A Special Correspondent
First publised on 2025-05-14 13:46:56
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The three wings of the Indian security forces and the government know that almost all objectives of Operation Sindoor were decisively met and that the enemy was made to wilt under immense pressure. The world also knows, through satellite pictures and on-ground reporting by unbiased reporters, that Indian forces, while inflicting serious damage to the terrorist infrastructure, air bases and command hubs in Pakistan, successfully defended the nation from a barrage of drone and missile attacks from the hostile neighbour. It does not need any outside validation.
Yet, when an authority on urban warfare like John Spencer, a West Point scholar, author of Understanding Urban Warfare, and executive director of Urban Warfare Institute, wrote in a post on X "after just four days of calibrated military action, it is objectively conclusive: India achieved a massive victory. Operation Sindoor met and exceeded its strategic aims - destroying terrorist infrastructure, demonstrating military superiority, restoring deterrence, and unveiling a new national security doctrine. This was not symbolic force. It was decisive power, clearly applied."
Later, in an interview, Spencer made another telling point. He said that satellite pictures clearly showed that India had bombed and destroyed two entrances to the Pakistani nuclear facility at Kirana Hills, while not actually hitting the actual facility. In his opinion, destroying the entrances meant the facility was rendered inoperative and hence, India neutralized the nuclear threat too. While India has denied bombing Kirana Hills, this was also confirmed by another expert, Tom Cooper, who is an air military historian. Although reports in a section of the media, which claim to have verified the alleged claim, say that the target was Sargodha Air Base (which is just 15-20 kms away), the opinion of the experts cannot be ignored. The strike at the entrances of the nuclear storage facility and the hits on Nur Khan and Sargodha air bases, were perhaps, more than anything else, the main reasons why Pakistan hastily chose to call for a ceasefire.
