Pakistan fired drones and missiles, including a Fateh-1 missile, at India in a pre-dawn strike on Saturday under what Pakistani media called Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos. The firing of the Fattah-1 ballistic missile came as Pakistan escalated the situation a day earlier targeting 26 locations in India with drones and missiles after India’s Operation Sindoor.
“Pakistan has started ‘Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos’,” reported Radio Pakistan.
Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos or Bunyan-un-Marsoos means ‘solid wall of steel’.
Bunyan Ul Marsoos is a verse from the Quran, the holy book of Muslims.
According to Al Jazeera, “Bunyan Marsoos is an Arabic phrase which directly translates into ‘a structure made of lead’.”
According to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera, the verse from Quran reads: “Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”
With the name, Pakistan likely wants to portray itself as an impregnable wall or structure.
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This comes after India hit terror camps inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) as part of Operation Sindoor after the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attacks in which 26 civilians were killed.
India attacked nine sites in Pakistan and POK as part of the aerial strikes on May 7.
Pakistan must have named its military misadventurism — Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos — because it has been breached.
It was the first time since the 1971 War that India hit a target in Punjab province, deep in Pakistan territory. The terror camp in Pakistan’s Punjab was 100km from the border.
The use of Quranic verse could also be part of the pattern of giving the attacks a religious tone.
At Pahalgam on April 22, Pakistani and Pakistan-trained terrorists asked the tourists to read kalma to identify the non-Muslims, and shot them dead from point-blank range in front of their family members.
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