‘Operation Sindoor could’ve been catastrophic for Pakistan’: Indian officer says they lost over 100 soldiers

Indian Army’s Director General Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai said this week that Pakistan is believed to have lost more than 100 soldiers on the Line of Control during India’s Operation Sindoor in May. Speaking at the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries’ (UNTCC) Chiefs’ Conclave on Tuesday, the top Indian officer estimated that the consequences of precision strikes on Pakistan-based terror infrastructures could have been more devastating.

In addition to incurring a huge loss of military personnel, the top official further insisted that the neighbouring country was rid of at least 12 aircraft during the punitive retaliatory measures.

Top Indian military official on Operation Sindoor’s potential ‘catastrophic’ consequences

“The Indian Navy was also very much in action, ladies and gentlemen. And this is possibly a fact that is not very well known-that the Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea, and when the DGMO spoke, it was very well poised,” he said, as per ANI. Ghai pressed that had Pakistan not played its role in holding back after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor could have weighed a lot heavier on their head.

“Had the enemy decided to take it any further, it could have been catastrophic for them, and not only from the sea but from other dimensions as well,” he added. The military official asserted that the Indian Armed Forced prioritised their targets between April 22 and the night of May 6-7. “We carried out certain precautionary deployments on our borders to make sure that the enemy was deterred. There were numerous inter-service government departments and agencies that were coordinating,” Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai went on.

Citing a list of awards conferred by the Pak military posthumously, he added, “Pakistanis possibly unwittingly let out their awards list on August 14, and the number of posthumous awards that they awarded suggests to us now that their casualties on the LoC were also in excess of 100.”

Reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah’s statements, he affirmed that India deemed terror attacks as acts of war, which would be responded to with “decisive retaliation.” Ghai also doubled down on India not bowing to “nuclear blackmail,” noting, “There is no distinction between terrorists and sponsors of terrorism.”