Team News Riveting
New Delhi, October 14
Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy) and Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai said over a dozen Pakistani military aircrafts were downed by Indian Air Force (IAF) during the Operation Sindoor while over 100 terrorists were neutralised by the armed forces in the action.
Addressing the Chiefs and representatives of 32 UN troops Contributing Countries at UNTCC conclave in New Delhi today, Lt Gen Ghai said that Operation Sindoor was tri-services operation. He also highlighted that it was the fusion of military precision, diplomatic agility, informational superiority and economic leverage.
The top Indian military officer said India achieved the political and military aims and hit nine targets across the breadth of Pakistan. It was a maturing of India’s doctrine beyond the binaries of peace and war. Lt Gen Ghai said, military actions were targeted, controlled, non-escalatory.
He revealed that the Indian Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea and was ready for action when Pakistan reached out and called for a ceasefire of hostilities after four days of military conflict in May. “The Indian Navy was also in action… The Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea and when the DGMO spoke, they were very well poised. Had the enemy decided to take it any further, it could have been catastrophic for them and not only from the sea but from other dimensions,” the DGMO said.
Lt Gen Ghai stated that the swift capitulation from Islamabad affirmed India’s political and military objectives, warning that “further conflict would have been catastrophic” for Pakistan.
The DGMO said, “The perpetrators of the attack at Pahalgam, the Indian Army will chase them to the depths of hell-and we did. It took us 96 days, but we did not let them rest.”
