Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari today revealed that he was advised to hide in a bunker when India launched Operation Sindhur in May this year.
Zardari made the revelation at a function in Larkana, Sindh province, to mark the 18th death anniversary of his wife and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
Zardari said, “My MS (Army Secretary) came to me and said that the war has started. He asked me to go to a bunker but I told him that leaders do not die in bunkers. They die on the battlefield.”
It is worth mentioning that 26 Indian tourists and others were killed in the terror attack in Pahalgam and India launched Operation Sindhur on May 7. India had targeted Pakistan and terror infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to avenge the Pahalgam attack. After this attack, the situation between the two countries remained war-like for four days and the air forces of both countries bombed each other’s positions. PTI