Op Sindoor: Navy was 'action-ready', says DGMO; warns it 'could’ve been catastrophic for Pak'

NEW DELHI: Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, Director General Military Operations (DGMO) of the Army, said connected Tuesday that the Indian Navy was afloat prepared during Operation Sindoor and that immoderate further hostilities by Pakistan could person been "catastrophic for it." "The Indian Navy was besides successful action. The Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea and erstwhile the DGMO spoke, they were precise good poised. Had the force decided to instrumentality it immoderate further, it could person been catastrophic for them and not lone from the oversea but from different dimensions," Lt Gen Ghai said.

Providing details of the May 7-10 hostilities, helium said Pakistan resorted to cross-border firing instantly aft India targeted 9 panic sites connected May 7. "We went aft terrorists, and erstwhile that had been achieved, it wasn't our volition to escalate it unless compelled to bash so. There was besides cross-border firing by Pakistan instantly erstwhile the panic targets were engaged," helium said. Lt Gen Ghai added that Pakistan’s posthumous awards database released connected August 14 suggested that its casualties connected the Line of Control exceeded 100. The DGMO besides described Pakistan's drone attacks against India arsenic a "dismal failure."

"A assortment and people of drones were utilised successful an effort to origin casualties and harm to (our) men and material. But everything was a dismal failure," helium said, noting that these attacks followed talks betwixt the 2 DGMOs.

The attacks prompted the

Indian Air Force

to transportation retired precision strikes connected Pakistan installations connected the nighttime of May 9-10. "We deed 11 of their aerial bases. If you see, 8 aerial bases, 3 hangars and 4 radars were damaged.

Pakistani aerial assets were destroyed connected the crushed arsenic well," helium said. Lt Gen Ghai said Pakistan mislaid 1 C-130 aircraft, 1 AEW&C (Airborne Early Warning & Control), and 4 to 5 combatant jets connected the ground. He besides referred to the sidesplitting of 3 terrorists liable for the Pahalgam attack, saying the Army was determined to "chase them to the depths of hellhole and we did." "It took america 96 days but we did not fto them rest," helium said, adding that erstwhile the 3 terrorists were located and eliminated, they appeared exhausted and malnourished. "Often, radical tin crook astir and archer you wherever they person vanished. But it is astatine times, similar searching for a needle successful a haystack. While it whitethorn look precise elemental to the non discerning, these things instrumentality time," helium said. Lt Gen Ghai noted that determination has been a "doctrinal displacement successful our strategy against terror." "Our premier curate has spoken astir it. And these are the 3 things helium said. The panic attacks are an enactment of war. Therefore determination volition beryllium decisive retaliation. We volition not succumb to atomic blackmail. And determination is nary favoritism betwixt terrorists and sponsors of terrorism," helium said.In effect to the Pahalgam panic attack, India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7, targeting violent infrastructure successful territories controlled by Pakistan.