Vice President Dhankhar Compares Operation Sindoor to U.S. Raid on Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday (May 17, 2025) drew similarities between Operation Sindoor and the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

Describing attacks on nine terror sites in Pakistan as the "deepest-ever cross-border strike" by India, the Vice-President recalled the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States.

Without naming bin Laden, he said that on May 2, 2011, a global terrorist who planned, supervised, and executed September 11 attacks inside the US was "dealt with" by the U.S. forces "similarly".

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"Bharat has done it. And done it to the knowledge of the world," he said, addressing an event of Jaipuria institutions here.

He said that a new "global benchmark" has been set. While maintaining the spirit of peace, the objective has been to strike at terrorism.

For the first time, targeted strikes were conducted deep inside the International Border on Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba strongholds.

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He stated that the strikes were so targeted that only terrorists were injured.

Mr. Dhankhar said that after the Pahalgam terror attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given a message to the global community from Bihar. "Those were not empty words. The world has now realised," he said.

He further stated that the terror attack in Pahalgam, in which at least 26 people were killed, was the deadliest attack on civilians since the Mumbai terror attack.

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