India’s Operation Sindoor inflicted significant damage on terror infrastructure and military assets across the border, with officials indicating that multiple high-value targets were neutralised in a calibrated and precise response.
Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti, during a press conference on Thursday, said, "We struck and decimated their 9 terrorist camps on 7th May. The proof is there for everybody to see. We struck 11 of their airfields. We destroyed 13 of their aircraft either on the ground or in the air, including one high-value airborne asset at a record distance of 300 kilometres plus..."
He stated that while the country cannot bring back the citizens killed in the Pahalgam terror attack, it can ensure that such incidents are not repeated. He noted that Operation Sindoor, which currently remains paused, was launched with that objective in mind.
"We cannot bring back our fellow countrymen who were massacred in cold blood on 22nd April 2025, but we can certainly resolve to ensure that such incidents are not repeated. Operation Sindoor, which remains paused, is an effort towards that resolve. Since times immemorial, we have lived by the simple philosophy of "live and let live," but when our desire for peace is mistaken for weakness and our silence is taken as absence, there is no choice but to act," Air Marshal Bharati said.
"And when we act, there are no half measures; it is decisive, it is lethal, and it translates into Operation Sindoor--a decisive yet calibrated response targeting the perpetrators and their backers. As Rajiv has alluded, going into this operation, our high directions were very, very clear. The objective was clear, and the forces were given full operational freedom," said Air Marshal Bharati.
He said that Operation Sindoor was carried out with clear strategic direction and full operational freedom.
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