TNPSC Thervupettagam

Operation Sindoor 2025

May 8 , 2025 17 hrs 0 min 41 0
  • The Indian Air Force has deployed the Rafale jets armed with SCALP missiles and AASM Hammer bombs in the 23-minute-long Operation Sindoor early in the morning of 7 May 2025.
  • The 25 minutes lasted attack targeted against only known terror camps.
  • The Indian Armed Forces has struck nine terror sites in Pakistan's Punjab province and PoK.
  • Among these four are said to be Bahawalpur and Muridke in Pakistan Punjab and Muzaffarabad and Kotli in PoK.
  • It had marked the most expansive and widespread retaliation since the Balakot airstrikes in 2019 and the surgical strikes following the Uri attack in 2016.
  • All are having the links to the terror groups, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen.
  • Operation Sindoor was ostensibly a reference to only men being singled out based on their faith before being killed in Pahalgam.
  • India has briefed the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia, UAE and Russia after striking targets
  • No Pakistani civilian, economic or military targets have been hit.
  • India's Operation Sindoor briefing was led by Wing Commander Vyomika Singh and Colonel Sofiya Qureshi.
  • Sofiya Qureshi is the first woman officer to lead an Indian Army contingent in a multinational military exercise in Pune, Maharashtra.

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