Operation Sindoor: Deputy Army Chief Reveals 5 Key Points | '9 Targets Prudent to Engage'

Operation Sindoor: Almost two months after India initiated operation Sindoor against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Rahul R Singh has opined that operation to destroy the nine targets was decided in the final one hour before the commencement of operation.

India had paredued 21 targets of which nine were deemed prudent to engage, and this was finalised within the last hour, said the top Army officer.

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He was speaking at an occasion organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

Here are five big remarks by him:

Lessons from Op Sindoor: "The strategic messaging by leadership was unambiguous. There is no scope of absorbing the pain the way we did a few years ago...An important consideration was that we should always be at the top of the escalation ladder. When we reach a military objective, we should try and put a stop to it."

Why Pakistan wanted ceasefire: “There was a punch ready. Pakistan realised that in case that hidden punch comes through, they would be in a very bad condition. This is why they asked for a ceasefire.”

Selection of nine targets: "The planning and selection of targets was based on a lot of data that was collected using technology and human intelligence. So a total of 21 targets were actually identified, out of which nine targets we thought would be prudent to engage... It was only the final day or the final hour that the decision was taken that these nine targets would be engaged."

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India's ‘masterly stroke’: "War is easy to initiate, but it's very difficult to control. So I would say that was a very masterly stroke that was played to stop the war at an appropriate time".

China, Turkey's support to Pakistan: "Firstly, one border, two adversaries. Pakistan was a front face. We had China providing all possible support, and it's no surprise because if you were to look at statistics, in the last five years, 81 per cent of the military hardware that Pakistan is getting is all Chinese. So, it's no surprise... China perhaps has seen is that he's able to test his weapons against various other weapon systems that are there. It's like a live lab which is available to it."

On May 7, a fortnight after 26 people were murdered in the deadly terror attack in a scenic spot in Jammu and Kashmir, namely, Pahalgam, India decided to put into operation Operation Sindoor.

More than 100 terrorists were martyred with India hitting nine terror camps in Pakistan and POK.

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