New Delhi: Announcing the launch of ‘Operation Sindoor’, the Press Information Bureau in a statement released at 1.44 am on 7 May, 2025, said Indian Armed Forces “a little while ago” hit terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed.
The statement added that a total of nine sites have been targeted and that the actions of the Indian armed forces have been “focused, measured and non-escalatory” in nature.
Further, it said that “no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted”.
The statement was followed with a post on X by the Additional Directorate General of Public Information, IHQ of MoD (Army), which read: “Justice is Served. Jai Hind.” The post was accompanied by an image and the hashtag: “PahalgamTerrorAttack”.
A little over 15 minutes before PIB released the statement, the Army’s handle on X had posted a video showing what appeared to be military preparedness drills with the caption: “Ready to Strike, Trained to Win”.
The operation dubbed ‘Sindoor’ comes a fortnight after terrorists shot and killed 25 Indians and a Nepalese national at Baisaran in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The next day, the Cabinet Committee of Security (CCS) met under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This was followed by a readout which, without naming Pakistan, said “cross-border linkages of the terrorist attack were brought out” during the briefing to the CCS.
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