Timing of strikes in Op Sindoor decided on May 5: IAF vice chief

The date and time of strikes to be launched against terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under Operation Sindoor was decided on May 5, and less than 50 weapons were fired to achieve conflict termination on May 10, the Indian Air Force vice chief Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari said on Saturday.

- HT Correspondent

He said the operational options were presented to the government on April 24 — within 48 hours of the Pahalgam terror strike — and the targets were shortlisted on April 29.

“From the list of options presented, we had a large number of target sets. And those finally boiled down to nine...The terror targets were the initial objective and that we did (hit) very successfully. But when the response came, despite the fact that we were not willing to escalate, we still kept it calibrated and engaged only military targets,” Tiwari said at the NDTV Defence Summit 2025.