‘We hit at terror epicentre’: Surgical strike to Op Sindoor, PM Modi lists goals India set for each mission

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India started Operation Sindoor with the clear objective of hitting the epicentre of terrorism.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on Operation Sindoor, Modi listed the objective with all three cross-border military action that India has conducted in his tenure.

Modi said that India conducted surgical strike in 2016 was to destroy launchpad of terrorists. He said the purpose with the Balakot airstrike in 2019 was to destroy the training centre of terrorists. He said that the objective of the Operation Sindoor after the Pahalgam attack in 2025 was the dismantling of epicentres of terrorism.

In 2016, India launched the surgical strikes in the Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) after a terrorist attack in Uri of Jammu and Kashmir. In 2019, India conducted airstrike in Pakistan’s Balakot in response to a suicide bombing in J&K’s Pulwama that targeted a convoy of CRPF personnel.

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On the intervening night of May 6-7, India launched Operation Sindoor and struck terrorist sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK). The operation was launched in response to the attack in J&K’s Pahalgam in which terrorists killed 26 people. Pakistan-based terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack.

After Indian strikes on terrorist sites, Pakistan targeted Indian military and civilian sites on May 7 and India responded with strikes on Pakistan’s military sites, including airbases and air defence units. After four days of conflict in which India neutralised major Pakistani airfields and air defence units, Pakistan sent a request for a ceasefire on May 10 that India granted.