Armed Forces Assert India “served justice” in Operation Sindoor

New Delhi: Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt General Rajiv Ghai with Air Marshal AK Bharti and Vice Admiral AN Pramod during a press conference on ‘Operation Sindoor’, in New Delhi, Sunday, May 11, 2025. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)(PTI05_11_2025_000229A)

India on Sunday stressed that purpose of Operation Sindoor has been served, given that action against nine terrorist camps and on key military installations deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the last four-days of offensive since May 7 killed 100 terrorists and 35 to 40 soldiers across the border

Director General of Military Operations Lt General Rajiv Ghai said among the 100 terrorists killed were high value targets such as proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Mazood Azhar’s brother-in-law Mohd Yusuf Azhar, Abdul Malik Rauf, Muddasir Ahmed, who were involved in the hijack of IC 814 and the Pulwama blast.

The count could go further up, he said, as intelligence agencies are still ascertaining details of the operations.

The Pakistan Army is reported to have lost approximately 35-40 personnel in artillery and small arms retaliatory firing on the Line of Control between May 7-10, responding to provocative aggression showed by Islamabad to target civilians and structures.

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The government on Sunday evening fielded Director Generals of Army, Air Force and Navy to give an overall detailed briefing of the Operation Sindoor after the India and Pakistan reached an understanding to hold back their guns following third party negotiations as stated by United States President Donald Trump.

DGMO Ghai said five of armed forces personnel lost their lives in the cross border exchange of fire.

Director General Air Operations Air Marshal AK Bharti, who shared the dais with Lt General Ghai, said “a few planes” of Pakistan Air Force which were “high tech” were downed without getting into number of losses.

He did not share number of IAF aircrafts lost to projectiles coming from Pakistan. “We are in a combat scenario. Losses are part of it”, he said, adding that “we would not like to comment” on “how many numbers” and “which platform we lost”. At the same time, he insisted that “we achieved our objective of disseminating terrorist camps”.

The Pakistan DGMO proposed to cease hostilities during talks with DGMO Ghai at at 3.35 pm on Saturday which resulted in guns falling silent on either side with effect from 5 pm in the evening. “We also decided to further speak on May 12 at 12 noon to discuss the modalities that would enable the longevity of this understanding,” Lt General Ghai said.

“ However, disappointingly and should I add expectedly, it took only a couple of hours for the Pak Army to violate these arrangements by cross border and Line of Control firing followed by drone intrusions,” DGMO said.

General Ghai said that military actions that followed in these days was “no less than a war” since in normal conditions the Air Forces of the two countries do not fly and attack each other.

Director General Naval Operations Vice Admiral AN Pramod said: “The forward deployment of the Indian Navy in Arabian sea in a decisive and deterent posture and capacity to strike targets at sea and on land including Karachi at a time of our choosing. This “compelled Pakistani Naval and air units to be in a defensive posture, mostly inside harbours or very close to their coast, which we monitored continuously.”

Published on May 11, 2025