Former Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan has said that an Indian loitering munition may have come down on Pakistan’s Kirana Hills during Operation Sindoor, while insisting the area was not deliberately targeted.

Speaking at a VIMARSH event in New Delhi on 25 August, Chauhan said India had sent loitering munitions towards Sargodha to look for radar targets. According to reports of his remarks, he said the weapons could loiter for about two hours and that one may have struck one of the hills after failing to find a target.

The word “may” is central. Chauhan’s statement is a notable public account from a retired senior military official, but it is not an independently verified record of the weapon’s final location, its payload, damage on the ground or the character of any facilities nearby. None of those matters should be inferred from the statement alone.

Kirana Hills have long been associated in public commentary with Pakistan’s nuclear programme. That association makes precision essential. The available reporting does not provide independent evidence of damage to a nuclear-related facility, a radiation event or a deliberate Indian attempt to hit such a site. Claims going beyond the former official’s account require evidence that is not in the material reviewed here.

The comments nevertheless matter politically. They put a more detailed explanation into the public domain for an episode that has generated competing narratives since the 2025 conflict. Chauhan’s account frames the event as a targeting and endurance problem involving a weapon searching for radar systems near Sargodha, rather than a selected strike on Kirana Hills.

Pakistan has not, in the reviewed reports, provided an independently verifiable public damage assessment that resolves the question. That leaves the story at a clear evidentiary line: a former Indian military chief has described what he believes may have happened; the broader consequences are not established. The right response is scrutiny, not escalation by headline.