“Considering the current situation on the border, a blackout is declared in the Kutch district until further orders. A blackout has been enforced in all the villages of Suigam and Vav talukas of Banaskantha district amid prevailing situation,” said the Gujarat Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said in its post on X.
Some villages in bordering Santalpur taluka of Patan have also been put under blackout, it said.
A similar move was implemented in these three districts for nearly seven hours on Thursday.
Early Wednesday, Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), including the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s base in Muridke, in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam. PTI PJT PD NP