Operation Sindoor: If (Pakistan) will go further, we will not stop, says top security official
This came on the day the Ministry of Defence said that Indian armed forces had 'neutralised' Air Defence radars and systems at 'a number of locations' in Pakistan, including Lahore, as a retaliation to Pakistan's attempts to escalate.
Speaking to The Indian Express, the official said there was nothing 'absolute' in the current military stand-off between India and Pakistan, and that India's responses would depend on whether and how quickly Pakistan climbed the escalatory ladder.
'We are prepared for the best but we are also ready for whatever happens,' the top official said.
This reflects the Government's assessment that it has repeatedly underlined the 'non-escalatory' nature of its action and it's up to Pakistan to take the first step back.
The top official reiterated that India had picked nine precise targets and hit only terror infrastructure, including camps of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, and could immediately provide 'visual and video proof' of the damage inflicted.
This also demonstrated a quantum jump both in India's strike and surveillance capabilities. 'We have shown how precisely we picked our targets including several in Pak-occupied Kashmir and not missed a single target. Also, we did not hit a single extra target during the entire operation,' the top official said.
Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption.
Sarin is one of India's most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ's Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries. ... Read More
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