The drone strike at Pakistan’s Rawalpindi cricket stadium rocked the city on Thursday. The explosion triggered panic among citizens who were seen on the streets. The cricket stadium suffered major damage.
PSL Match Venue Shifted
A Pakistan Super League (PSL) cricket match was scheduled to take place on May 8. Now, the match venue has reportedly been shifted to Karachi. The match between Peshawar Zalmi and Karachi Kings was supposed to take place at the stadium, now the venue has been changed.
🚨 An Indian drone crashed near the food street adjacent to #Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium after colliding with a tree. The crash caused a fire at the site. On one hand, we are attacking India through social media; on the other hand, all of this is being watched . What's going on? pic.twitter.com/tKs10Nikd1
— Islamabadies (@Islamabadies) May 8, 2025
Videos went viral on social media
According to social media reports, a drone crashed near the stadium, damaging a restaurant building. Several visuals of the incident have been widely circulated on social media.
Earlier, multiple drone explosions took place in Lahore and Karachi. As per reports , three blasts took place in the Walton Road area of Lahore. Commercial flights in Lahore and Sialkot have been suspended due to security reasons.
Harpy drones designed to attack radar systems
Meanwhile, the Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised by Indian military drone action.
The Harpy drones designed to attack radar systems were used by the Indian armed forces to target enemy air defence systems in Lahore, after Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets on the night of May 7.
Operation Sindoor
India on May 7 executed Operation Sindoor, in which nine terror sites deep inside Pakistan were destroyed in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 innocents were killed.
Indian Air Force S-400 Sudarshan Chakra air defence missile systems were fired last night against targets moving towards India. The targets were successfully neutralised in the operation, multiple domain experts told the news agency ANI.
