Reiterating India’s position of not wanting to escalate, the unequivocal message from New Delhi is that if Pakistan will go further, India will not stop…we will go till the very end.
That’s the message a top security official in the government, who has been closely associated with Operation Sindoor has conveyed.
This comes after the Ministry of Defence and External Affairs said that Indian armed forces had neutralised a air defence system in Lahore, as a retaliation to Pakistan’s attempts to escalate.
The Senior security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said there was nothing “absolute” in the current military stand-off between India and Pakistan, and that India’s responses would depend on whether and how quickly Pakistan climbed the escalatory ladder.
“We are prepared for the best but we are also ready for whatever happens,” the top official said.
This reflects the Government’s assessment that it has repeatedly underlined the “non-escalatory” nature of its action and it’s up to Pakistan to take the first step back.
The top official reiterated that India had picked nine precise targets and hit only terror infrastructure, including camps of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, and could immediately provide “visual and video proof” of the damage inflicted.
This also demonstrated a quantum jump both in India’s strike and surveillance capabilities. “We have shown how precisely we picked our targets including several in Pak-occupied Kashmir and not missed a single target. Also, we did not hit a single extra target during the entire operation,” the top official said.
