India, May 20 -- Operation Sindoor, India's response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror strike, delivered military precision, diplomatic signalling and economic resolve as one coherent national act, army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday,

"It struck deep, dismantled terror infrastructure, punctured a long-standing strategic assumption (Pakistan's nuclear blackmail), and then stopped, deliberately and purposefully," he said at a seminar organised by the think tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies.

Operation Sindoor, which began in the early hours of May 7, 2025, was New Delhi's muscular response to the Pakistan-backed Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people. It triggered four days of strikes and counterstrikes with fighter j...