Gen Munir Takes Pakistan on a Suicide Mission

If the Pak army and the ISI choose the path of confrontation, they must remember that they have seen just a trailer of what India can do.

- SURENDRA KUMAR

All Indians are proud of the surgical strikes at nine terrorist centres belonging to internationally known terrorist groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen in Punjab and the POK on 7 May. We must salute the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force for their flawless execution of Operation Sindoor, so evocatively named by Prime Minister Narendra Modi—a tribute to the women's husbands martyred in the brutal terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam on 22 April. We must, unreservedly, compliment the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. The exemplary synergy, guidance and coordination of the Defence Minister, Home Minister, External Affairs Minister, National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary should also be applauded. The BSF and the CRPF too deserve praise. And we shouldn't forget to thank all the opposition parties for unitedly supporting and standing behind the Government. I wish India could be so united without an external threat. If, somehow, we could, there won't be an iota of doubt that we would be Viksit Bharat by 2047.

On 8 May, at his press briefing, flanked by Col Sofia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh—unmistakable examples of India's Nari Shakti and secularism—Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, a Kashmiri Pandit, underlined, "our action was necessary to deter imminent attacks. It was proportionate, non-escalatory and conducted with maximum restraint." Calling the Pahalgam attack the most savage assault on civilians since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Misri pointed out, "The terrorists issued warnings to the survivors, clearly seeking to spread terror and halt the return of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir." Wing Commander Singh added, "Operation Sindoor was launched to deliver justice to the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack and their families." "No Pakistani military facilities were targeted. The focus was solely on terror bases."