India, May 7 -- As Operation Sindoor marks one year on Thursday, May 7, the defence forces team which led the military strike against terrorism in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) said that the operation was not an end, but "just the beginning". The then-director general of military operations, Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, said that the "hungama" (chaos) was not the intention, but bringing a "change" was.

Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7, 2025, by the Indian armed forces in response to the April 22 terror attack that killed 26 people in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

The Indian forces targeted terror infrastructure, belonging to outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, in Pakistan and PoK.

Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, the then-...