India-Pakistan war: Punjab on high-alert, complete blackout in the Gurdaspur district till…

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated sharply over the last two weeks, following a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, 2025. In retaliation, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor within the early hours of Wednesday, focusing on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK). This defense pressure operation came in accordance with the attack in Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians, including one Nepali nationwide.

The Authorities of India, along with the Punjab Authorities, has issued directives beneath the Civil Defence Act, 1968, mandating a complete blackout within the Gurdaspur district from 9:00 PM to 5:00 AM. In accordance with the records company ANI narrative, the measure, efficient from May 8, 2025, will live in set up except additional look.

“Due to a sensitive atmosphere on the Indo-Pak border, programs of the Authorities of India and the Authorities of Punjab. In accordance with this, additional orders shall be issued from 08.05.2025 to take care of the emergency discipline beneath the Civil Defense Act 1968. From 9.00 pm to 5.00 am the next day, there shall be complete “sunless out” in district Gurdaspur. This repeat may no longer be relevant in Central Detention heart Gurdaspur and hospitals. Though, the windows of Gurdaspur penal complicated and hospitals shall be closed each day from 9.00 pm to 5.00 am the next day,” reads the commentary.

The measure has been utilized in accordance with the sensitive discipline along the Indo-Pakistan border and is designed to take care of any potential emergency eventualities that will arise.

Blackout Advise Exempts…

• The blackout repeat exempts Central Detention heart Gurdaspur and hospitals. Then once more, these institutions should protect their windows closed and securely lined all around the specified hours to make certain no gentle escapes.

After India performed Operation Sindoor, in which 9 alarm sites deep internal Pakistan were destroyed, Pakistan tried to interact a alternative of defense pressure targets on the night of May 7. The defense pressure targets were engaged in Northern and Western India, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, utilizing drones and missiles.

These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter UAS Grid and Air Defence systems. The particles of these attacks is now being recovered from a alternative of locations that time to the Pakistani attacks. Indian Air Force S-400 Sudarshan Chakra air defence missile systems were fired on Wednesday night in opposition to targets titillating in direction of India. The targets were successfully neutralised within the operation, more than one domain experts suggested ANI. An official Authorities affirmation is awaited. On Thursday morning, the Indian Armed Forces centered Air Defence Radars and systems at a couple of locations in Pakistan. The Indian response has been within the an identical domain with the an identical intensity as Pakistan’s. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence machine at Lahore has been neutralised.

(With ANI Inputs)