New Delhi: The top brass of India’s Armed forces — DGMO Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, DGAO Air Marshal AK Bharti and DGNO Vice Admiral AN Pramod — provided a detailed description of Operation Sindoor and subsequent actions at a special briefing on Sunday evening.
Explaining the reason why Operation Sindoor was conducted, DGMO Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai said: “You are all by now familiar with the brutality and the dastardly manner in which 26, innocent lives were previously killed, terminated at Pahalgam on the 22nd of 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 to make yet another compelling statement of our resolve as a nation.”
Providing a blow-by-blow, slide-by-slide account of the operation in the early hours of May 7, the senior personnel showed evidence of the terrorist hubs destroyed at nine places in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
“Those strikes across those 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,” Lt Gen Ghai said.
DGAO Air Marshal Bharti showed the major terror camps in Pakistan’s Muridke and Bhawalpur that were destroyed during Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7.
Reiterating India’s unambiguous stand that no civilians were targeted, Lt Gen Ghai stated that Operation Sindoor had a precise military objective. “Operation Sindoor was conceptualised with a clear military aim to punish the perpetrators and planners of terror and to destroy their terror infrastructure.”