As per the Army's press release this morning, Operation Sindoor, a limited, non-escalatory, strike has been completed against Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, this was touted as retaliatory action for the Pahalgam massacre. Missile attacks on specific locations in Bhawalpur and in PoK were apparently conducted. This begs the question, when this information / specific intelligence / pin point data was available about terrorists camps and launchpads across the border, why were they not targeted before the Pahalgam attack? Do we need to be in kneejerk mode all the time, isn't the war against terror supposed to be a continuous operation? How come such precise information was acted upon now after Pahalgam and not before it? Remember Balakot, where India claimed to have eliminated terror camps and silenced 200 mobile connections while Pakistan took the international press to the purported site of attack and showed them that some trees had been destroyed. Be that as it may, the PM had given 'Complete-Operational-Freedom', so any credit for the strike should remain with the forces. He has already washed his hands off the action by delegating control to the Army.
