India, May 9 -- China has, for the first time, acknowledged that it deployed technical experts to Pakistani air bases during last year's military escalation with India, referred to in India as Operation Sindoor. The revelation was reported by the South China Morning Post, citing comments aired on Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

The admission comes in the backdrop of heightened India-Pakistan tensions following the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, which killed 26 civilians. In response, India launched precision strikes under Operation Sindoor, targeting terror infrastructure across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), eliminating over 100 militants linked to groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba,...