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By giving its military offensive the moniker, Pakistan seems to be making an attempt to invoke religion and Quranic references in its attacks on India
In a pre-dawn strike on Saturday, Pakistan escalated its military offensive against India, firing drones and missiles, including a Fatah-II long range missile. (AFP)
From a Quran verse to a military offensive—Pakistan has redefined the concept of ‘Bunyan-un-Marsoos’, a phrase that literally translates to ‘solid and unshakable foundation’.
In a pre-dawn strike on Saturday, Pakistan escalated its military offensive against India, firing drones and missiles, including a Fatah-II long range missile. Though Pakistan’s intention was to hit India’s capital Delhi, the missile was intercepted in Haryana’s Hisar, exposing the hollowness of the neighbour’s sabre-rattling.
According to Al Jazeera, “Bunyan Marsoos is an Arabic phrase which roughly translates to ‘a structure made of lead’. The verse from the Quran reads: “Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure.”
By giving its military offensive the moniker, Pakistan seems to be making an attempt to invoke religion and Quranic references in its attacks on India.
Firstpost reports that metaphorically, the phrase describes Islam’s believers who stand together in harmony and mutual support—like bricks in a wall—against an external threat. The neighbour, however, has corrupted the holy phrase’s meaning as it is not engaged in any defensive action but instead mounting an unprovoked attack on India in support of terrorists and shedding the blood of innocent Indian civilians.
This is in stark contrast to India which ensured that no civilian areas or military installations were targeted in Operation Sindoor, maintaining the line that the war was against terrorism that was being sponsored by a rogue State.
Since Friday evening, Pakistan has launched drone strikes, missiles, and cross-border shelling against India, though most of the attempts were thwarted by India’s alert forces and an impregnable air defence system. India also shot down two Pakistani fighter jets apart from breaching the air bases of Noor Khan (Rawalpindi), Murid (Chakwal), and Rafiqui (Shorkot).
Explosions were heard in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and other big cities, including Lahore and Islamabad, as Pakistan Army claimed that India fired ballistic missiles. Following multiple drone attacks from Pakistan across the border, India, in its retaliatory measure, struck back with force in PoK’s Neelam Valley and Sialkot.
Top Indian government sources, speaking to CNN-News18, said: “Pakistan launching the Fatah Series ballistic missiles at Indian Air Force forward bases and cities under ‘Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos’ is a major escalation. India has hit major air bases of Pakistan, including Rawalpindi, in response and our air assets are safe. It seems a clear ploy by Pakistan to launch its big strike after the IMF bailout. The drones sent before this seem to be more of intel missions to assess our air defences,” they said.
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