{ CDS HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF TECH } 'Op Sindoor ongoing, readiness must remain'

Chief of defence staff General Anil Chauhan on Friday said that Operation Sindoor, India’s direct military action against Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam terror strike, is still on, adding that the country’s military readiness must always remain ata very high level.

- HT Correspondent

Chauhan said there were no runners-up in war and any military must always be alert and operationally ready. “Our preparedness level has to be very high — 24X7, 365 days,” he said at a seminar organised by the Centre for Air Power Studies.

India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7 and struck terror and military installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following the Pahalgam terror strike. Between the launch of the operation in the early hours of May 7 and the ceasefire on May 10 evening, Indian forces bombed nine terror camps in Pakistan and PoK, killing at least 100 terrorists, and the Indian Air Force struck targets at 13 Pakistani airbases and military installations.

To be sure, the political and military leadership has main-