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**Headline: Indian Army Thwarts Pakistani Attacks on Golden Temple, Civilian Targets**
**Chandigarh – May 19, 2025** – The Indian Army has accused Pakistan of deliberately targeting civilian and religious sites within India, including the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, Punjab, during recent cross-border clashes. At a demonstration near the India-Pakistan border, military officials showcased the effectiveness of India’s air defense systems in repelling the attacks.
According to Major General Kartik C. Seshadri, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15 Infantry Division, Pakistan launched drone and missile attacks on the intervening night of May 7-8, 2025, attempting to strike the Golden Temple, a sacred place of worship for Sikhs. These attempts were successfully thwarted by Indian air defense systems, including the indigenously developed Akash missile system and L-70 air defense guns.
“The Pakistan Army has no legitimate targets to strike inside India… hence, it uses terrorism as a national policy and resorts to unmanned aerial weapons launched from its own soil,” Major General Seshadri stated. He emphasized that Pakistan also targeted civilian population centers, including women and children.
The Indian Army maintains that its response, “Operation Sindoor,” targeted only known terrorist camps within Pakistan with precision weapons, minimizing collateral damage, a fact that Pakistan had admitted. However, India claims that Pakistan’s attacks are indiscriminate and deliberately target places of religious significance.
“It [Pakistan] saw a surfeit of drone and missile attacks which were thwarted bravely by our Army air defence gunners,” Major General Seshadri said. “The Indian armed forces and Army air defence gunners will continue to defeat all his [Pakistan’s] designs and thwart all aerial threats always.”
The situation remains tense along the India-Pakistan border, with heightened security measures in place to protect civilian and religious sites from further attacks.
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