Did India Target a Secret Bunker at Pakistan’s Murid Air Base? Satellite Images Raise Questions
New Delhi, May, 2025 – New satellite images have triggered fresh speculation over India’s recent airstrikes deep inside Pakistani territory. This time, the focus is on a little-discussed location: the Murid Air Base, about 150 kilometers south of the Line of Control in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
At first glance, the images appear ordinary — long runways, aircraft hangars, some surrounding infrastructure. But zoom in, and something unusual stands out.
A deep, dark crater, roughly three meters wide, sits less than 30 meters from the entrance of what appears to be a fortified underground facility, surrounded by layers of fencing and military watchtowers.
It’s not just the size of the crater — it’s where it landed that has analysts talking.
Precision or Coincidence?
According to satellite analyst Damien Symon, the crater is too close to the underground entrance to be accidental.
“This wasn’t a random impact. This was a message,” he said in a post that’s now gone viral among defense watchers.
The damage appears to line up with India’s Operation Sindoor, a carefully coordinated retaliation against terrorist attacks in Jammu & Kashmir earlier this year. Indian officials haven’t officially acknowledged Murid as a target, but they haven’t denied it either.
What’s Underneath Murid?
The Murid Air Base is not as well known as Sargodha or Nur Khan, but it holds strategic value. The area has long been rumored to house command infrastructure and drone assets. Older reports hinted at Pakistan’s efforts to build secure underground zones to store high-value military equipment — possibly including UAV systems or munitions.
The base lies in a zone that connects Pakistan’s northern and central air command networks. Targeting it wouldn’t just be symbolic — it would disrupt real operational flow.
Another building near the impact site — thought to be a control center — also shows visible roof damage in satellite photos taken after May 10, the day of the Indian strikes.
Radio Silence from Both Sides
So far, there’s been no official word from Islamabad. The Pakistani military has stayed unusually quiet since Operation Sindoor, releasing only broad denials about Indian “propaganda.”
In New Delhi, the government remains tight-lipped. A senior defense source, speaking off the record, said,
“The images speak for themselves. We don’t need to explain what happened.”
Zoomed view of underground facility entrance at Murid
The Bigger Picture
What makes this development even more significant is what it suggests about the changing nature of warfare in the subcontinent. Rather than traditional ground confrontations, India and Pakistan may now be engaged in limited, high-tech precision strikes, aimed not just at retaliation, but at psychological and infrastructural pressure.
If India did, in fact, hit a fortified bunker at Murid, it would mark a major shift in targeting capability — both in terms of intelligence and missile precision.
What Comes Next?
Military watchers expect Pakistan to respond — eventually. Whether that response is public or covert remains to be seen. In the meantime, analysts say the satellite trail tells a clearer story than any press conference ever could.
For now, one thing is certain: the crater near Murid Air Base isn’t just a hole in the ground. It’s a warning written in smoke and silence
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