The IAF on Monday trashed social media rumours that it hit Pakistan’s Kirana Hills, which reportedly has a nuclear facility. “We have not hit hills, anything is there,” Director General of Air Operations Air Marshal AK Bharti said. He was asked around social media rumours that India hit a site called as Kirana Hills.
India’s strikes hit an airbase in Sargodha, and there have been a few reports that the bottom is connected to an underground nuclear storage facility there.
What are Kirana Hills?
Kirana Hills is located in Pakistan’s Sargodha district. It is an extensive rocky mountain range and a chosen place under Pakistan’s Ministry of Defence. Often called the “Black Mountains” because of its brownish terrain. It stretches between the township of Rabwah and the city of Sargodha, forming part of the Mushaf Air Force Base.
Incidentally, Mushaf is one of the airbases that India had struck earlier. It is the Command Headquarters of the Pakistan Air Force and is home to various squadrons of F-16, JF-16.
India denies rumors on hitting PAK Mountains Ranges
Interest in the Pakistani location surged days after India struck airbases in the neighbouring country. Many on X speculated that India had hit Kirana Hills, mentioning that it houses Pakistan’s many nuclear warheads.
This interest was amplified on Monday when a journalist posed an same question to the IAF official at the briefing. The journalist in his question stated that there were social media chatter claiming that India had struck the Mushaf Airbase in Sargodha. That connects to underground nuclear storage under the hills, by using loitering and penetrating munitions.
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