New Delhi:
Pakistan’s huge army escalation alongside the Line of Management (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the Worldwide Border in different states had a Turkish hyperlink. 300-400 drones supplied by Turkey had been utilized by Pakistan to focus on each army and civilian areas in India.

The drones had been used to hold out a number of intrusions and violations of Indian airspace alongside your complete western border – from Leh in Ladakh to Sir Creek in Gujarat – at 36 places, the federal government mentioned at a particular press briefing on Operation Sindoor.

Of the almost 400 drones despatched by Pakistan, “the Indian armed forces introduced down quite a lot of these drones utilizing kinetic and non-kinetic means,” the federal government mentioned, including that the drone particles is being investigated by forensic consultants.

Preliminary forensic proof of the drone particles means that these had been ‘Asis Guard Songar’ drones of Turkey, the federal government famous.

Turkey, which has neither condemned the phobia assault on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, nor despatched its condolences to the households of Indian vacationers killed by Pakistan-linked terrorists, has as a substitute utterly backed Pakistan.

Turkey’s messaging and actions raises suspicion over Ankara backing terrorists and terror motives in Pakistan. Listed below are an inventory of Turkish actions that forged a shadow over its intentions:

1. Turkey has, for lengthy, supported Pakistan morally, economically, and militarily. It has been a robust supporter of Pakistan’s communal narrative of the Two-Nation Idea, in addition to Islamabad and Rawalpindi’s narrative of Kashmir. Hours after the Pahalgam terror assault, which was carried out by The Resistance Entrance, a shadow arm of the UN-banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – the one world chief to satisfy the Pakistani prime minister. After the assembly, Shehbaz Sharif expressed gratitude for Turkey’s “unwavering help” over Kashmir.
2. Instantly after the Pahalgam terror assault, whereas the world stood in solidarity with India, Turkey reportedly despatched an unlimited quantity of army belongings to Pakistan to assist a apprehensive Islamabad refill towards any motion that India deliberate to take towards the “terrorists and their backers”.
3. Six Turkish army plane reportedly arrived in Pakistan allegedly with Turkey-made weapons and army gear – stories of which have been denied by Ankara. Turkey couldn’t deny the presence of its C-130 plane army plane because it was picked up by world air surveillance techniques, however denied that there have been any weapons despatched. “A cargo airplane from Turkiye landed in Pakistan for refuelling,” Ankara mentioned in a press release.
4. Days later, Turkey additionally despatched one in every of its naval warship – the TCG Bykada (F-512), a corvette – to “brother-nation” Pakistan’s Karachi Port in an aggressive army posturing favouring Islamabad over New Delhi. Turkey referred to as it a “routine port name”, whereas Pakistan referred to as it a “goodwill go to”.
5. After India carried out its ‘Operation Sindoor’, the place precision missile strikes focused terrorist infrastructure and terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), Turkey was the one nation to side-up with the Pakistani narrative and even categorical its solidarity with Pakistan. Based on a press release from the Turkish presidency, President Erdogan spoke with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, conveying Turkey’s solidarity with Pakistan and Ankara’s help to Islamabad in dealing with of the scenario after India’s Operation Sindoor. Describing India’s precision strikes towards Pakistani terror camps as “martyrdom of quite a few civilians”, President Erdogan mentioned, “I pray for Allah’s mercy for our brothers who misplaced their lives within the assaults, and I lengthen my condolences to the brotherly individuals and state of Pakistan.”
6. On the intervening evening of Might 8 and 9, 300-400 Turkish-made drones launched by Pakistan violated the Indian airspace with the intention to “presumably to check India’s air defence techniques, to collect intelligence,” India mentioned on the press convention at this time. “These provocative and escalatory actions taken by Pakistan final evening had been focused at Indian cities, civilian infrastructure, in addition to some army targets,” International Secretary Vikram Misri mentioned.
7. Final 12 months, Pakistan’s official buy of Turkish arms and ammunition stood at $5.16 million. Nonetheless in the previous couple of years, Turkey has change into Pakistan’s essential defence companion. Moreover the Asis Guard Songar drones talked about at this time, Turkey has been offering Pakistan with its Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones for enhanced surveillance. Ankara can also be offering Islamabad with superior naval belongings – 4 MILGEM-class corvettes, two of which – PNS Khyber and PNS Babur, had been in-built Istanbul and have been delivered, and two that are presently being constructed on the Karachi Shipyard – PNS Tariq and PNS Badr.

The rising alliance between Turkey and Pakistan, particularly over incidents of terrorism and Islamabad’s Kashmir narrative, is being watched intently by India.