The air defense chief of the Indian Army has said that the main gland of the Golden Temple in Amritsar had given a rare permission for the deployment of air defense systems within the holy complex to counter the missile and drone attacks from Pakistan. Army Air Defense Director General Lt Gen Sumer Ivan D’Kunha revealed on Monday that during Operation Sindoor, the management of the Golden Temple in Amritsar agreed to the Indian Army to deploy air defense guns inside the temple to counter possible drones and missile threats from Pakistan. Amritsar was targeted several times by Pakistani drones and projectiles several times in response to Operation Sindoor, launched as a vengeance of terrorist attacks in Pahalgam on 22 April.
Permission was given to protect the Golden Temple from Pakistani attack
Lieutenant General Sumer Ivan D’Kunha said in an interview to news agency ANI, “It was great that the main gland of the Golden Temple allowed us to deploy their guns. This is probably the first time in many years that they stopped the golden temple lights so that we could see the drone.” The Army Air Defense Director Officer further said that the Golden Temple officials once explained that they realized that there was a possible danger.
Deployment of cannons to combat drones
Citing a prior statement of Major General Karthik C Seshadri, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15th Infantry Division, in which he revealed that the army air defense guards had successfully stopped all drones and missiles targeted at the Golden Temple, D’Kunha said that the Indian Army had estimated that the Indian Army had estimated that Pakistan could target religious places due to the absence of legitimate creations. Is. Lieutenant General D’Kunha said, “Luckily, we imagined what they (Pakistan) were able to do. Feeling that they would target it because they had no legitimate target across the border. They were more interested in creating confusion, chaos internally, and so, we imagined that they would target our civilian population and our religious worship.”
All attacks on the Sikh pilgrimage site were successfully thwarted
Major General Seshadri, who also gave details of the Indian Army campaigns in the Golden Temple, confirmed that all attacks on the Sikh pilgrimage site were successfully thwarted. Major said “The Pakistani Army has no legitimate goal to attack India inside India, nor does it have the courage or ability to face the Indian armed forces face to face. Therefore, it uses terrorism as a state policy and resorts to launching unmanned air weapons from his earth. They have also targeted religious sites, especially on Indian border, there is an example of this, where the golden temple is an example in the Indian border, especially in the Indian border, in the Amritsar border, the golden temple is an example in the Indian border, especially in the Missile Hlags. The growth was seen, which was bravely thwarted by the air defense guards of our army.
In response to the terrorist attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, the military action between India and Pakistan recently intensified after India attacked terrorist bases in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir. In retaliation, Pakistan targeted Indian civilian areas with around 1,000 drones, all of which were successfully killed by Indian air defense systems. India also caused a lot of damage to the Pakistani air bases and caused a lot of damage to the Pakistani Army.
SGPC refuses on army claim
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) on Monday dismissed the statement of an army officer that Pakistan had targeted the Golden Temple with drones and missiles, which was killed by the Indian Army. This statement was given by General Officer Commanding Major General Karthik C Seshadri of 15 Infantry Division in an interview to a media outlet here. In response to the cruel terrorist attack in Pahalgam on 22 April, Pakistan had launched a drone and missile attacks after India attacked nine terrorist bases in the neighboring country. 26 people were killed in this attack.