Operation Sindoor is a series of missile attacks by Indian armed forces on nine terror targets in Pakistan and PoK in the early hours of 7 May 2025 in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
Between 1:05 AM and 1:30 AM on 7 May, 2025, Indian armed forces struck 9 terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok). This included the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Bahawalpur. In a statement, the Indian government said its actions were “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature” and that “no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted”.
Underlining the Pakistan link to the Pahalgam attack, the statement said India is “living up to the commitment that those responsible for this attack will be held accountable”.
Pakistan reacted to the precision strikes by sending in drone swarms into Indian border states, and launching missiles on military and civilian infrastructure in India. Indian armed forces responded by striking airbases in Pakistan. On 10 May, Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) called his Indian counterpart and the two agreed on an understanding to cease all military hostilities starting 5 pm that day.
Some people still think that Pakistan is propped up and supported by the US. They are still living in soviet era foreign policy. World has moved on. China is the all weather partner of Pakistan, whatever Paksitan does has the stamp of approval from Beijing. And we need more friends globally to win this three front war. Isolation will only bring you so far. Isolation works if all our neighbours were also isolated but they are united.
There’s no solution.
Chinese attacked us even when we went out of our ways to support it at UN , on Tibet in 1950s.
Pak is ideologically bound to be our enemy plus it gets benefits by opposing us.
Being so strong that we can defeat both is the only way.
If it needs a alliance with West, let it be, no need for an autonomy which doesn’t allow us to improve our living standards.
The column does not make for happy reading. Pakistan is not the chocolate eclair wrapper our studio warriors make it out to be. Its conventional capabilities augmented and bolstered – in the past, China has contributed to its nuclear weapons programme as well – by China, it can tie us down sufficiently to allow China’s western theatre command to chill. 2. I will leave military strategy to the experts. Although honestly cannot understand the claim that India can “ win “ a two front war. What role should the Foreign Office be playing to prevent India from being hemmed in from two sides. As the column explains, this dynamic started in 1962. Long enough to figure out a better modus vivendi for three neighbours whom a messy partition of Hari Singh’s complex real estate holdings has placed in possession of portions of a contested territory. Including swathes where not a blade of grass grows. 3. What should also be kept in mind is the economic growth China has registered since 1978. The asymmetry it has created.