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NDTV
20-05-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
In Outreach Delegations' Briefing, Pak's 'Victim Card', China's Changed Stand
NEW DELHI: The foreign ministry briefing for the all-party delegations that are going to visit 33 nations to explain Operation Sindoor and India's resolve to end terror, has focussed on the US claims on ceasefire and the changed stance of China. The briefing of the leaders took place in Delhi yesterday and the first of the seven teams will start tomorrow. Sources said the delegations were told that it was Islamabad which had initiated contact with Delhi on May 10. The DGMO (Director General of Military Operations) had called around 11 am but the hotline was not working. Then the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi sent a message that the DGMO wanted to talk, sources said Then contact was made, but conversation could not take place even by 12.30 pm because the Indian DGMO was in a meeting, sources said. The talks finally took place around 3:30 pm, in which a ceasefire was agreed upon. "The talk of US President Donald Trump's mediation is not correct because the initiative was taken by Pakistan itself... Back-channel talks keep happening with many countries," a source said. The gathering was also told that China's attitude turned out to be very positive. China has expressed regret instead of condemning India's action - which comprises a major change in its stance. As for Pakistan, it "tries to play the victim card on such occasions but India will not let this happen," a source said. India's side will be strongly presented and Pakistan will be exposed on the issue of terrorism, he added. The nations selected for the Indian teams' visit are permanent or temporary members of the United Nations Security Council -- current and future. The delegations will meet current and former Prime Ministers, foreign ministers, MPs, opposition leaders, intellectuals, journalists and expat Indians in these countries. The government has taken this huge initiative following Operation Sindoor, and the names of participants - cutting across party lines -- were announced late last week. The delegations are being led by Baijayant Panda and Ravi Shankar Prasad of BJP, Sanjay Kumar Jha of Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United, Shrikant Shinde of Shiv Sena, Shashi Tharoor, DMK's Kanimozhi and Supriya Sule of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) faction. The delegations will visit 32 nations and the European Union's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
India.com
18-05-2025
- Politics
- India.com
Pakistan Fell For Fake Jets: How India's Decoy Strike Crippled Neighbour's Air Defence
New Delhi: Signaling a shift in how regional conflicts are being waged, India executed a sophisticated campaign of electronic misdirection and surgical airpower to neutralise Pakistan's frontline airbases. A web of decoys, digital warfare and long-range precision missiles left Pakistan scrambling for cover in a modern war masterclass. While the world watched in silence, Indian forces pulled off a bold military offensive as part of Operation Sindoor – involving fake radar signatures, autonomous munitions and precision-guided strikes that overwhelmed Pakistan's defensive grid before it could respond. Indian defence planners employed a decoy-first strategy: launching dummy unmanned aircraft with radar signatures mimicking Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets. These 'ghost planes' were never meant to strike but to provoke a reaction. The trap worked. Pakistani air defence systems got activated, revealing their hidden radar positions and missile batteries. That is when the real offensive began. With enemy systems exposed, India deployed a mix of loitering munitions – drones capable of circling a target before striking – along with long-range missile systems. These included Israeli Harops and homegrown BrahMos units. The missiles, as per reports, were not only aimed at physical structures but also targeted communication nodes and radar arrays. It effectively blinded large parts of Pakistan's defensive infrastructure. Among the high-value targets reportedly struck were airbases in Sindh and Punjab provinces, where critical surveillance and drone assets were either destroyed or rendered inoperable. Military observers say that the operation was not just about retaliating, it was about reshaping the rules of engagement. Reports suggest that 11 out of 12 forward Pakistani airbases were put out of commission or severely degraded, forcing their air force to relocate assets deep into the interior. A particularly costly loss appears to be an airborne early warning aircraft reportedly struck while still on the ground – an incident described by analysts as a major intelligence blow to Pakistan's aerial capabilities. Caught off-guard by the pace and precision of the operation, Pakistan's military command, according to the reports, requested high-level talks mere hours after the strikes began. Within the day, Director General of Military Operations (DGMO)-level discussions were initiated, and both sides agreed to a ceasefire by late afternoon. This campaign marks the first known combat use of several advanced Indian assets, including the BrahMos supersonic missile system in active conflict. Military experts note that the success of the mission lay not just in the firepower, but in the sequence – deception, exposure and strike – executed with digital finesse. What unfolded was not merely a retaliatory strike but a demonstration of how modern warfare now transcends dogfights – a calculated, multi-layered digital battlefield where perception can be weaponised just as powerfully as precision.
India Today
18-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Operation Sindoor: Amit Shah Praises India's Strike Deep Inside Pakistan
1:31 The Indian Army has clarified that no Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) level talks with Pakistan are scheduled for today. The ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan will continue indefinitely, as decided in the previous DGMO-level talks held on May 12th. Both armies are focusing on confidence-building measures to maintain peace along the borders. Indian forces remain on high alert and vigilant along the border areas.
The Hindu
18-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Pause in India-Pakistan hostilities to continue: Army official
'The cessation of hostilities agreed upon by India and Pakistan on May 12 will continue,' an Army official said on Sunday (May 18, 2025.) India-Pakistan ceasefire updates: J&K to seek Central assistance for residents hit by Pakistan shelling Dispelling notions that the pause was temporary and it will end today, he said, "As far as the continuation of break in hostilities as decided during the interaction of the DGMOs (Director General of Military Operations) is concerned, there is no expiry date to it." The official said no talks were scheduled between the DGMOs of India and Pakistan on Sunday (May 18, 2025.)
India Today
12-05-2025
- Business
- India Today
No reference to trade: Government sources deny Trump's remark on India-Pak ceasefire
Trade was not discussed during separate conversations between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President JD Vance and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Secretary of State Marco Rubio amid tensions between India and Pakistan, government sources told India Today TV on development came hours after US President Donald Trump, who helped broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, claimed that both countries would not trade with his country if they did not the commencement of Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), Vance spoke to PM Modi on May 9 while Rubio had a conversation with Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval the next day, according to government sources. There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions, they US is India's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade totalling USD 129.2 billion in 2024. On the other hand, the US's total trade with Pakistan was an estimated USD 7.3 billion last in the day, Trump said that the US "will do a lot of trade" with India and Pakistan, adding that while talks with New Delhi were ongoing, negotiations with Islamabad would start took credit for stopping what he called a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, saying his administration brokered a "full and immediate ceasefire" between the two remarks came days after he announced a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, even before the countries commented on the matter. However, India refrained from using the term 'ceasefire'.Soon after, the government held a press briefing and said that India and Pakistan agreed to stop firing and cease military action from 5 pm today. India stressed that the understanding was worked out "directly between the two countries".Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the DGMO (Director General of Military Operations) of Pakistan called up his Indian counterpart and both sides agreed to stop all firing and military action from land, air and sea from 5 pm countries held DGMO-level talks at 5 pm today and agreed to take immediate measures to ensure the reduction of troops along the borders and forward areas, according to a discussed the commitment that both sides must not fire a single shot or initiate any aggressive and inimical action against each other, the statement the military-level talks between India and Pakistan over the hotline were previously scheduled at 12 noon. However, they started around 5 there were cases of violation of the understanding by the Pakistani military on Saturday night, there were no such incidents on Sunday night, a first in 19 April 23 to May 6, incidents of small arms fire were reported across multiple sectors along the LoC, escalating to heavy artillery shelling and aerial attacks between May 7 and Operation Sindoor, India carried out precision strikes on terror infrastructure early on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists. Following the Indian action, Pakistan attempted to attack Indian military bases on May 8, 9 and Pakistani attempts were strongly responded to by the Indian side by inflicting heavy damage to a number of key Pakistani military installations, including airbases, air defence systems, command and control centres and radar sites.(with inputs from PTI)Must Watch IN THIS STORY#India-Pakistan#Narendra Modi#Donald Trump#Pakistan#Jammu and Kashmir
