DECISIVE action has replaced dossiers and the new India can go to any extent to uproot terrorism, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday while stating that Operation Sindoor was on pause as the Armed Forces had achieved the desired objectives. Initiating the special discussion on “India’s strong, successful and decisive Operation Sindoor in response to the terrorattackinPahalgam”in theLok Sabha, Singh said the military action against Pakistan had sent a clear message to supporters of terrorism that India was committed todefenditsmotherland. Just as the debate started inthe Lok Sabha, security forces inJammu and Kashmir reportedthat three terrorists have beengunned down after a massivegunfight. “Today, dossiers have beenreplaced by decisive action.

 

Today’s India thinks differentlyand acts differently. We believethat if the adversary uses terrorism as part of strategy and doesnot understand the language of peace, then standing firm andbeingdecisiveis the only option,”Singh said. Rejecting US President Donald Trump’s claims of mediating a ceasefire between IndiaandPakistan,theMinister added,“OperationSindoorwas pausedas thearmed forceshad achieved the desired politicomilitary objectives and there wasnopressure toend theconflict with Pakistan.” If Pakistan indulges in fresh misadventure, it will resume again, he added. Singh asserted that India now believes in taking decisive action as peace overtures have not yielded desirable results. The Defence Minister also made light of the Opposition attacks against the Governmenton thelossofmilitary assetsin the four-day war andurgedpoliticalrivals to ask the number of Pakistani aircraft downed by India. “It is the Opposition’s job to ask questions of the Government.

 

Our Opposition members kept asking how many of our aircraft were shot down, but they never asked howmanyPakistaniplanesour forces had shot down,” Singh said. “If you want to ask questions, then askif any of our soldierswereharmedinthisoperation. The answer is no, none of our soldiers were harmed.” Singh said Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor on the intervening night of May 6-7 to deliver justice to thosewholost theirloved onesin thePakistan-sponsored terroristattacksinPahalgamon April 22. To say or believe that Operation Sindoor was stopped under any pressure is baselessandcompletelyincorrect, he said. It was Pakistan’s Director GeneralofMilitaryOperations whorequestedhisIndiancounterpart to end the strikes, the Ministerasserted.Singh’sstatement comes in the backdrop ofTrump’sclaimsofmediation to end the conflict between India and Pakistan.