New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- It was a year India showed its military might, its technological prowess, the capability of its indigenous platforms and its resolve of zero tolerance to terrorism as it gave a befitting reply to Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack, forcing the western neighbour to seek a ceasefire.

India struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under Operation Sindoor on May 7 and effectively repelled Islamabad's subsequent escalation, pounding Pakistan airbases.

Experts said Operation Sindoor showed the world that India will take terror head-on, as also countries that are known for being fountainheads of terrorism and that India has now graduated from a posture of surgical retaliation...