Operation Sindoor: More than 100 terrorists killed in nine terror camps during India’s strikes in Pakistan | 10 Big Takeaways

New Delhi: Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, Vice Admiral AN Pramod and Major General Sandeep S Sharda held a press briefing on Sunday and shared the details of ‘Operation Sindoor’. During the address, the officials said that the Indian Air Force (IAF) identified nine targets in Pakistan after a careful deliberation under Operation Sindoor, and launched the strikes, killing over 100 terrorists on May 7. India’s military strikes at Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) were meant to kill only terrorists and avoid collateral damage, they said.

“You are all by now familiar with the brutality and the dastardly manner in which 26 innocent lives were prematurely terminated at Pahalgam on 22nd April. When you combine those horrific scenes and the pain of the families that the nation witnessed with numerous other recent terrorist strikes on our armed forces and defenceless civilians, we knew that the time had arrived to make yet another compelling statement of our resolve as a nation. Operation Sindoor was conceptualized with a clear military aim to punish the perpetrators and planners of terror and to destroy their terror infrastructure. What I do not state here is the often stated determination of India and its intolerance to terror,” DGMO Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai said.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high level meeting with defence minister Rajnath Singh, external affairs minister S Jaishankar and tri-services chiefs at his residence in New Delhi. The meeting came a day after India and Pakistan reached a ceasefire after four days of military conflict. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan were also present at the meeting.

Operation Sindoor: BIG UPDATES

  • Air Marshal AK Bharti, addressing Pakistan’s actions during the conflict, said that on the night of May 9-10, Pakistan deployed drones and aircraft across the border in an attempt to strike multiple Indian military installations, but largely failed.
  • Strikes across nine terror hubs left more than 100 terrorists killed, including high value targets such as Yusuf Azhar, Abdul Malik Rauf and Mudasir Ahmed that were involved in the hijack of IC814 and the Pulwama blast.
  • Nefarious places such as Muridke, the hub center of the Lashkar-e-Taiba has over the years bred infamous characters such as Ajmal Kasab and the likes of David Headley were destroyed
  • The line of control was violated soon after by the Pakistan and the erratic and rattled response of our enemy was apparent from the number of civilians, inhabited villages and religious sites such as Gurudwaras that were unfortunately hit by them, leading to a sad loss of lives.
  • The Indian Air Force played a major part in these strikes by engaging some of these camps and the Indian Navy provided wherewithal in terms of precision munitions. The Indian Air Force had their assets up in the sky.
  • .On the night of 8-9 May, they (Pakistan) flew drones and aircraft into our airspace all across the borders and made largely unsuccessful attempts to target numerous military infrastructure.
  • Violations on the LoC by Pakistan also commenced yet again and precipitated into fierce arty engagements

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