Specific targets of Operation Sindoor

The targets were selected by India on the basis of actionable intelligence.

City view during the blackout, after India's strikes in Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan-administrated Kashmir, May 7, 2025. / Reuters/Akhtar Soomro

According to Indian defence sources, Operation Sindoor targeted infrastructure facilities linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), the two dangerous terror organizations which have been operating from Pakistani territory.

Four targets of Jaish-e-Mohammed, three of Lashkar-e-Taiba and two of Hizbul Mujahideen terror groups were hit. Here are details of the targets:

Markaz Subhan Allah, Bahawalpur – JeM (Bahawalpur is across the Rajasthan border across the Thar desert; it is a Jaish-e-Mohammed base. The terror outfit is led by Maulana Masood Azhar, among three terrorists India swapped in exchange for the passengers of Indian Airlines flight IC-814, hijacked in December 1999.)

Markaz Taiba, Muridke – LeT (Muridke is near Lahore. It is the base of Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e-Taiba terror organization which carried out the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Markaz-e-Taiba, the base camp of Lashkar-e-Taiba, is in Muridke.)
Sarjal, Tehra Kalan - JeM
Mehmoona Joya, Sialkot - HM
Markaz Ahle Hadith, Barnala - LeT
Markaz Abbas, Kotli - JeM
Maskar Raheel Shahid, Kotli - HM
Shawai Nalla Camp, Muzaffarabad - LeT
Syedna Bilal Camp, Muzaffarabad - JeM
Muridke, near Lahore, has always been known as headquarters of LeT's. Indian strikes attacked training camps and logistics facilities.

In Bahawalpur, reportedly the epicentre of JeM’s operations, Indian strikes hit the Subhanullah mosque complex in the Ahmed East area, claimed to be the centre for militant recruitment and training.

Muzaffarabad and Kotli: the information is that these two are the chief centres for infiltration of terrorists into Jammu & Kashmir in India from inside Pakistan.

Gulpur, Bhimber, Bagh, Chak Amru, and Sialkot are reported to be support centres for the terror outfits. .

Indian authorities said the nine locations were selected based on “actionable intelligence”.

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