Karachi: Karachi port suffered 'unacceptable loss of property' in the Indian strikes on the intervening night of May 8 and 9. The Karachi port authority confirmed the development in an X post. However, a few minutes later it deleted the post and shared another post claiming that the account was hacked.
Meanwhile restoration work in currently underway, the port authoeity claimed in the deleted X post. Notably, India conducted strikes on Karachi port after Pakistan's failed attempt to target India's civilian and military installations in border cities.
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Another Tweet By The Karachi Port:
Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan post April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and India's Operation Sindoor, reports had surfaced that about the Indian Navy's major offensive at the Karachi port.
India on Thursday thwarted Pakistan's attempts to strike military sites with drones and missiles at 15 places in northern and western regions of the country and targeted Pakistani air defence systems with one in Lahore being "neutralised".
The attempts by Pakistan came after the Indian armed forces early Wednesday carried out precise missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan under 'Operation Sindoor'.
As the Ministry of Defence(MoD) reiterated that any attack on military sites in India will invite a "suitable response", Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the choice of de-escalation is with Pakistan as it escalated the situation with the Pahalgam terror attack and that India only responded to it through 'Operation Sindoor'.
