We informed Pakistan before launching Operation Sindoor: EAM Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar today said that India had informed Pakistan in advance on May 7 before carrying out Operation Sindoor of attacking the terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Speaking to reporters outside the new Honduras Embassy, which was inaugurated today, the EAM also said that India will only talk bilaterally with Pakistan, and that too only on the issue of fighting terrorism - in a rebuff to the US which has been offering to mediate between the two sides.

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Jaishankar also reiterated that on the issue of Kashmir, India will only discuss with Pakistan the issue of "vacation of the illegally occupied part of Indian territory in POK". “Because even at the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan, saying we are striking at terrorist infrastructure; we are not striking at the military, so the military has an option of standing out and not interfering in this process. They chose not to take the good advice,” he said. “Once they got hit as badly as they did, on the morning of May 10, and all of you have seen the satellite pictures which bring out very graphically how much damage we did. By the way the satellite pictures also bring out h