Did India Attack Pakistan's Kirana Hills Nuclear Facility During Operation Sindoor? Expert Has 'Proof'

In a major revelation, aviation historian and analyst Tom Cooper has claimed that India struck Kirana Hills nuclear facility in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. In a television interview, Cooper stated that he has sufficient proof to back his statement. The analyst asserted that New Delhi struck the key military point to warn Pakistan; however, Indian Air Force (IAF) has denied the military action. India carried out Operation Sindoor back in May 2025 after Pakistan-backed terrorists killed 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

In an interview with NDTV, Cooper claimed that the attack on Kirana Hills nuclear facility was to send a strategic signal to Islamabad. "It’s a place you hit when you want to send a clear message without causing, let’s put it this way, too much damage. It means, ‘Listen, guys in Pakistan, we can hit you severely where we want, whenever we want, with as much ammunition as we want. Stop it, finally’," Cooper was quoted as saying by NDTV.

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However, this is not the first time that Cooper has made such claims. Earlier in ay 2025, in a Facebook post, he criticised India’s defence public relations apparatus for not acknowledging the attack.

"India, India, India… and ‘IAF and its PR-work’… sigh… Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor – Vice Air Chief, IAF – gave a press conference, a day or so ago. And, ‘of course’, somebody asked him about IAF air strikes on the underground elements of the Kirana Hills — one of major Pakistani ‘weapons storage facilities’ — well-known to have been flown during the 88-Hours War, on 10 May 2025," Cooper stated in his post.

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"Kapoor answered in the classic IAF-fashion: ‘we don’t know about it… these videos were presented by their people… they made them… we did nothing’…,” he added. India destroyed several terror sites in Pakistan in the key operation, setting a new line of response.