Pakistan May Have Lost Over 150 Soldiers In India’s Attacks During Op Sindoor, Deleted Report Suggests

Pakistan may once again have been caught hiding its battlefield losses. A briefly published and quickly deleted report on Samaa TV has ignited speculation that Indian strikes during Operation Sindoor in May 2025 inflicted far heavier casualties than Islamabad has admitted.

The article, now scrubbed from the news site, listed gallantry awards conferred by Pakistan’s president “for courage and supreme sacrifice during Operation Bunyanun Marsoos,” the codename for its response to Indian strikes. But the devil was in the details: at least 155 names carried the suffix “shaheed,” denoting they were killed in action.

According to the report (archived here), 146 recipients of the Imtiazi Sanad, essentially a certificate of distinction, were marked shaheed.

Another 45 soldiers were awarded the Tamgha e Basalat, normally reserved for acts of devotion to duty, with 4 of those posthumous.

Even the Sitara e Basalat, a higher medal for consistent valor, included one martyr. Most damningly, out of 5 Tamgha e Jurat, Pakistan’s rough equivalent of the Vir Chakra, 4 went to the dead, underlining the severe toll the operation took on Pakistan’s forces.

For Indian observers, the episode is a reminder of the Kargil War, when Pakistan not only concealed the scale of its casualties but even abandoned its soldiers’ bodies on the battlefield. The hurried deletion of the Samaa TV report suggests little has changed in Islamabad’s playbook.

If accurate, the figures point to Operation Sindoor delivering one of the heaviest blows to Pakistan’s armed forces in decades, though its generals appear more interested in handing out certificates of martyrdom than admitting defeat.

Neither India nor Pakistan has issued an official comment. Swarajya was unable to independently verify the claim.