Pakistan Admits Over 50 Losses, Including Military Personnel, During Op Sindoor | Exclusive

Last Updated:August 16, 2025, 13:18 IST

Pakistan admitted to over 50 losses during India’s military onslaught on May 9-10, including 13 military personnel. India and Pakistan exchanged four days of cross-border attacks.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. (File Photo)

More than three months after India launched precise airstrikes targeting terror infrastructure, Pakistan has admitted to heavy losses suffered in the military offensive from May 9-10. Pakistani authorities acknowledged that more than 50 citizens, including 13 military personnel, sources told CNN-News18.

Pakistan confirmed that Squadron Leader Usman Yousaf was killed during Operation Sindoor, when India attacked the Bholari airbase, by awarding him at the presidency. Several others were injured in India’s strikes on Nur Khan, Sargodha, Jacobabad, Bholari and Shorkot.

Several reports also confirmed that American technicians were injured at the Nur Khan airbase during Operation Sindoor, according to sources. This information came to light during an annual awards ceremony at Pakistan’s President House.

The awards were conferred to military personnel killed during Operation Sindoor by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the President House on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day on August 14.

Those personnel awarded the Tamgha-i-Basalat posthumously included Squadron Leader Usman Yousaf, Havaldar Muhammad Naveed, Naik Waqar Khalid and Lance Naik Dilawar Khan. The recipients of the Tamgha-i-Jurat included Naik Abdul Rehman, Lance Naik Ikra­mullah and Sepoy Adeel Akbar.

India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, bombing nine terrorist camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in pre-dawn strikes that killed at least 100 militants, in retaliation for a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, in which 26 tourists were killed. The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar offshoot, had claimed responsibility for the attack.

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