TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif reportedly held a meeting with the National Command Authority on Saturday, May 10, 2025, after Islamabad launched military operations against India, targeting several bases.
According to Arab News, the authority is the top civilian and military body responsible for overseeing the country’s nuclear arsenal.
In the recent confrontation between the two archrivals that began on Wednesday, India claimed to have attacked nine 'terrorist infrastructures' across Pakistan in retaliation for what it described as a deadly Islamabad-backed attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22.
Pakistan denied involvement and refuted that any of the locations attacked by India were military bases. Pakistan then reported shooting down five Indian fighter jets on Wednesday.
The Pakistani military said on Friday that it had shot down 77 Indian drones in several locations, including the two largest cities Karachi and Lahore, and the garrison city of Rawalpindi, the military headquarters.
Early on Saturday, panic gripped Pakistan as reports emerged that the Pakistan Air Force base at Nur Khan had been attacked. The Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi, where the military is headquartered, is about 10 kilometers from the capital, Islamabad.
In a televised statement, a military spokesperson said that three bases, Nur Khan, PAF Base Murid, an operational air force base near the village of Murid in Chakwal district, Punjab, and one in Shorkot, had been targeted by Indian missiles.
“Now you just wait for our response,” Chaudhry said.
The report emerged after Chaudhry stated that India had launched ballistic missiles that landed in Indian territory, announcing it in a sudden statement on national broadcaster at 01:50 local time on Saturday, without providing details supporting the claim.
“I want to give you the shocking news that India fired six ballistic missiles from Adampur. One of the ballistic missiles hit in Adampur, the rest of the five missiles hit in the Indian Punjab area of Amritsar,” the military spokesperson said in his brief video statement.
The Amritsar district commissioner, in a text message between Friday and Saturday, said, “Don’t panic. Siren is sounding as we are under red alert. Do not panic, as before, keep lights off, move away from windows. We will inform you when ready to resume power supply.”
Around 48 people have been killed since Wednesday’s conflagration, according to casualty estimates on both the Indian and Pakistani sides of the border that have not been independently verified.
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