Operation Sindoor: PM Modi To Address The Nation At 8 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 pm today -- the first since the ceasefire announced after four days of hostilities from Pakistan following Operation Sindoor.
Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7 in retaliation to the deadly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22.
Twenty-six people were killed in the terror attack -- 24 of them Indian tourists, one tourist from Nepal and a local man who was working as a pony handler. All were shot in cold blood, after the terrorists conducted an initial religious profiling. The pony handler was killed after he tried to save the life of a tourist. Click here for India Pakistan Ceasefire Live Updates
A proxy of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack, and investigation revealed the presence of three Pakistani terrorists in the group of five that had opened fire on the tourists.
As outrage over the attack spread across the country, the government launched a series of diplomatic measures including suspension of the Indus Water Treaty, cancellation of visas of Pakistani nationals and shutting the Attari border.
On May 7, India conducted targeted attacks on terror bases in 9 locations of Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
Not only did it destroy the headquarters of Lashkar and Jaish-e Mohammed, around 100 terrorists were killed. Among them were the men who were involved in the 2019 Pulwama attack and the 1999 hijack of an Indian Airlines flight IC 814.
At least five key operatives of Lashkar and Jaish were killed -- Mudassar Khadian Khas and Khalid alias Abu Akasha of Lashkar-e Taiba, Mohammed Yusuf Azhar, Hafiz Mohammed Jaleel, and Mohammad Hassan Khan of Jaish-e Mohammad.
Mohammed Yusuf Azhar was Jaish founder Masood Azhar's brother-in-law, and a wanted accused in the 1999 IC-814 hijacking case.
He was one of the masterminds of the diversion of the flight IC 814 to Afghanistan's Kandahar holding the passengers as hostages, which led to the release of Masood Azhar who till then was in an Indian jail.
Pakistan responded with a wave of drone and missile attack along the border in Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Punjab. The shelling along the Line of Control and the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, which had started after India's diplomatic measures in violation of an earlier ceasefire agreement, also continued.
India responded with a precise, calibrated operation that aimed at Pakistan's military installations, including Rafiqui, Murid, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan, Sagodha and Bholari. The Air Force also targeted a radar site in Lahore and another close to Gujranwala in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Precision strikes were conducted as well against selected military targets deep inside Pakistani territory -- radar installations, command and control centres, and ammunition depots in Rafiqui, Chaklala, Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur, and Sialkot.
The government and the armed forces -- which were given a free hand by PM Modi to choose the time, place and mode of retaliation -- said it was a continuation of the Operation Sindoor.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump announced that India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire. Minutes later, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri confirmed the ceasefire.
The government, though, did not mention any US role and said the ceasefire was agreed upon after a top military officer of Pakistan dialled India and the DGMOs of both nations discussed the issue.
India has said that any future act of terror by Pakistan will be considered an act of war, and India will respond accordingly.
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