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2 hours ago
- Politics
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Operation Sindoor draws 'new red line' against terror, hopes adversary understands: CDS Chauhan
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Saturday described India's Operation Sindoor as setting a 'new red line' of zero tolerance for terrorism and expressed hope that the military action has taught 'some lessons for our adversary.' read more Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Saturday said India's Operation Sindoor has drawn a 'new red line' of intolerance against terror, and expressed hope that the military action has brought 'some lessons for our adversary also'. In response to queries related to the recent operation and the idea of 'strategic stability' in India-Pakistan ties, during an event held here under the Shangri-La Dialogue, the CDS further said, it takes two hands to join to clap together, 'hopefully they understand this'. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Operation Sindoor was launched early on May 7 to destroy nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 people dead. All subsequent retaliations to Pakistani offensives were carried out under this operation. The four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan had brought the two nuclear-armed neighbours to the edge of a wider conflict. On a query on the lesson learned from the conflict, Gen Chauhan said India used indigenous systems and platforms from other countries as well during the operation. 'We were able to penetrate air defence as long as 300 km with pinpoint accuracy and targets, airfields and infrastructure, deep inside Pakistan. That indicates the functionality of the equipment,' he said. Gen Chauhan and several other defence chiefs or representatives from different countries delivered addresses during the seminar — 'Defence Innovation Solutions for Future Challenges' held as part of the Shangri-La Dialogue, a key summit of Asia.
The Hindu
4 hours ago
- Business
- The Hindu
India engages U.S. in plans to ‘grey list' Pakistan at FATF session
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, who was recently on a three-day visit to the U.S., engaged the American officials regarding the upcoming Financial Action Task Force (FATF) session, where India is expected to argue for grey listing Pakistan. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Misri — during his visit from May 27-29 — met a number of officials, including U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, and both sides focused on 'technology, trade and talent' as the pillars of the India-U.S. relationship. 'With Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender, the Foreign Secretary discussed ways to deepen economic and financial ties, including collaboration in international financial institutions and coordination in the upcoming Financial Action Task Force (FATF) processes,' the MEA said in a statement about Mr. Misri's visit, carried out as a part of India's outreach to crucial partner countries following Operation Sindoor against terror targets in Pakistan. The next plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is expected to take place in June, where India is planning to push for the re-inclusion of Pakistan in its 'grey list' of countries that are subject to increased scrutiny. Also Read | India hopes U.S. will clear visas on merit The Hindu had earlier reported that the Government of India will also oppose further World Bank funding to Pakistan. India has been arguing that the security establishment of Pakistan has a direct link to terror outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed that carry out cross-border terror attacks against Indian citizens, and that the terror link makes a compelling case to put all financial assistance to Pakistan under increased scrutiny. India has already made a round of submissions to the Monitoring Team of the 1267 Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council earlier in May. India's campaign to squeeze Pakistan on the financial front is expected to intensify in the coming months. Mr. Misri's visit to the United States had additional diplomatic importance as U.S. President Donald Trump has been repeating that he used the trade card to bring the four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan to a pause on 10 May. He reiterated his contribution to the pause in India-Pakistan hostilities on Friday, saying, 'We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. I believe that could have turned out into a nuclear disaster.' Mr. Misri reviewed the progress of the India-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement and cooperation in critical and emerging technologies during his meeting with Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler. The two officials agreed to convene the next meeting of the India-U.S. Strategic Trade Dialogue at the earliest opportunity. In Mr. Misri's meeting with Deputy Secretary of Defence Steve Feinberg and Under Secretary for Policy Elbridge Colby, both sides reiterated their commitment to a 'robust and forward-looking defense partnership'. 'Discussions focused on co-production and co-development initiatives, sustained joint military exercises, logistics and information-sharing frameworks, and enhancing interoperability between the armed forces,' the MEA said.
India Gazette
8 hours ago
- Politics
- India Gazette
CDS Gen Anil Chauhan holds bilateral talks with Netherland counterpart on defence cooperation
Singapore City [Singapore], May 31 (ANI): Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan held bilateral discussions with General Onno Eichelsheim, Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, to strengthen defence cooperation between the two nations. According to the Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS), the discussions focused on exploring avenues to enhance military engagement through exchange programs and bilateral training exercises. 'Deliberations were held on avenues to enhance #DefenceCooperation between both nations through military exchange programs and bilateral training events. Discussions also focused on #OperationSindoor, underscoring India's growing strategic partnerships to ensure peace and stability in the region,' HQ IDS said in a tweet. Earlier, CDS General Anil Chauhan also interacted with Admiral Samuel J Paparo, Commander of US INDOPACOM, USA, reinforcing defence ties. Their discussions centred on Operation Sindoor, strengthening military-to-military cooperation and opportunities to foster collaboration in the Indo-Pacific, in the backdrop of the dynamic regional security landscape. Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to address emerging security challenges and deepen strategic ties. Meanwhile, India and Brazil strengthened their bilateral ties at the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue 2025, reaffirming their commitment to a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific. Both nations emphasised cooperation on regional security, maritime freedom and sustainable development. General Anil Chauhan and Admiral Aguiar Freire, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Brazil, discussed shared values and interests, underscoring the importance of a rules-based international order and a growing convergence of views between India and Brazil on regional and global issues. At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, CDS Chauhan noted that both countries gained independence at the same time, and Pakistan was ahead of India in various metrics, including social, economic, and GDP per capita, but today, New Delhi is ahead of them. 'Now, on the India-Pakistan relationship, we are not operating without a strategy. When we gained independence, Pakistan was ahead of us on every metric: social, economic, and GDP per capita. Today, India is ahead on all fronts: economic performance, human development, and social harmony, despite our greater diversity. That didn't happen by accident; it's a result of long-term strategy,' he said. 'Diplomatically, we've reached out like in 2014 when the PM invited Nawaz Sharif. But it takes two hands to clap. If all we get in return is hostility, then disengagement may itself be a sound strategy for now,' CDS Chauhan added. (ANI)
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First Post
9 hours ago
- Politics
- First Post
How Trump has turned the clock back on India–US relations
President Donald Trump's lack of sensitivity and appreciation for India's broader concerns regarding Pakistan may have set relations back by a few years—though certainly not to the extent of the Nixon era read more By making what most Indians believe to be 'preposterous claims' on the India-Pakistan ceasefire following 'Operation Sindoor', US President Donald Trump may have lost more friends in the country than he might have had in the first place. Many of them also saw in it a weak and mean effort at stealing India's decisive victory, which has facets that none of the other global powers could claim in what was a deliberately calibrated and measured military engagement, the likes of which none of them have even attempted any time in the past. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD From the looks of it, even without anyone's intervention, India might have possibly called a ceasefire once its limited aims, achievements and goals had been met. Even after the first night's aerial raids on terror hideouts both in PoK and mainland Pakistan, India had done what it intended. The second night's military engagement was prompted by Pakistan firing missiles not only at Indian military personnel but also at civilians living along the border, especially in Kashmir. That night witnessed India neutralising many other select Pakistani military targets that comprised radar stations and air defence systems, including those near the capital Islamabad. Hence, for President Trump to claim as if the 'night-long intervention' by him and his officials was the main reason for the ceasefire did not go down well even with the man on the street in India. Clearly, he thought it was an attempt at stealing headlines, at least a part of it, as if the US under Modi's friend Trump, too, would not want to credit India with superior military capabilities than they were ready to concede, at least in public. Truly concerned… It does not stop there. If Trump and the US administration were truly concerned about it all, they should have intervened much earlier, after the Pahalgam terror massacre that claimed 26 innocent Indian lives. Unlike after China's Galwan attacks, this time, individual Western nations readily condemned the Pahalgam massacre but did not still connect it to Pakistan. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD In the past, despite knowing full well that Pakistan was backing Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, even after 9/11, the country did not find a place in President George Bush's list of three 'Axis of Evil' nations. Likewise, had it not been for the Pokhran-II nuclear tests, which prompted Islamabad to demonstrate its nuclear weapons capabilities as if it were just off the shelf, the world would not have been wiser to it. Successive US presidents, with full knowledge of Pakistan's nuclear weapons capabilities, looked the other way, despite repeated pleas by New Delhi, which also continued to provide Washington (and other global capitals) with credible evidence. Thus, as far as India is concerned, Pahalgam terror showed that nothing has changed for the country and in its favour unless it did what needed doing – and all by itself. Trump's claims to ensure a ceasefire in South Asia and indicating that he would continue to discuss the matter with the two governments concerned have clearly come out of a lack of understanding of geopolitics and geo-strategic considerations in this part of the world. As India has since clarified and reiterated, New Delhi does not entertain third-party intervention in bilateral affairs of the kind, be it viz Pakistan or China, or any other. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD In this case, the political stakes for India were too high for Team Trump, too, who have lost sight of. Under the Simla Accord of 1972, both India and Pakistan agreed to sort out all bilateral matters only through bilateral negotiations, without involving a third party, including the UN. It was on this commitment, so to say, that India at the time agreed to release the record high of 92,000 Pakistani PoWs captured at the end of the successful Bangladesh War of end-1971. It does not stop there. As if in retaliation to India declaring its intention to keep the Indus Water Treaty 'in abeyance' as one of the many diplomatic responses to the Pahalgam Terror, Pakistan announced the suspension of the Simla Accord. So, from a Pakistani standpoint, Trump's declaration of intervention, if left unchallenged by India, would have lent credence to Islamabad's position on the suspension of the accord. Despite what critics in India might still say about New Delhi under Indira Gandhi returning captured territory and returning the PoWs, the Simla Accord was/is good. In particular, the clause that denies third-party intervention has kept India in good stead whenever Islamabad had considered taking New Delhi to the UN. Now after Trump's claims of intervention, India under PM Modi has reiterated its position against third-nation intervention. Thus, New Delhi has reiterated its commitment to the Simla Accord. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Boorish play-acting Trump's claims of ensuring a ceasefire between India and Pakistan came at a time when Indians, like their counterparts elsewhere, were already upset by what everyone considered his boorish play-acting in the name of an American 'Liberation Day' and declaring a unilateral 'tariff war' on much of the rest of the world. This has also meant that many Indians did not take the US president seriously on his ceasefire claims, but those who did were looking at a holistic picture involving the institutions of American administration and the US presidency. From the looks of it, as was anticipated when he declared a tariff war, Trump needs a breather, a life-saver, to save his face nearer home. The tariff war had gone bad almost at once, and he had to announce a moratorium when the rest of the world protested and also began talking trade among themselves, minus the US. As if to acknowledge the truthfulness of the situation, a day after the president's tall claims on the India-Pakistan ceasefire, his administration had to impose a 90-day moratorium on the tariff war with China, America's biggest adversary as much on the economic front as on the political, if not strategic, front. Maybe the ceasefire claim was a deliberate diversionary tactic, both for Trump's domestic and international audiences, who were expecting fireworks on the China trade negotiations front – but it was not destined to be already. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Putting the clock back India has since kept China and Turkey out of the diplomatic briefings on Operation Sindoor – and for specific reasons. Already, demands have come up, including from Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), an affiliate of the RSS parent of the ruling BJP at the Centre with a 'Boycott Turkey' call. It's similar to the 'Boycott Maldives' call last year, which hurt the archipelago nation's mainstay tourism industry badly. India is alive to Pakistan's proximity to China in political, economic and strategic matters and how China is supplying a lot of weapons and fighter aircraft to Pakistan–once an exclusive terrain for imports from the US. Yes, Beijing choosing this time to give Chinese names for some more places in Arunachal Pradesh, which is an integral part of our nation, is not only in poor taste but also wholly unwarranted even otherwise. Yet, it was in the scheme of things as far as India's China relations go, especially when Pakistan is at the receiving end from India. To put it differently, what China did mattered more than what it said, including delayed condemnation of Pahalgam terror and soft-pedalling perceived political support for Pakistan during Operation Sindoor. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Still, China is China, and Beijing's current behaviour might well delay the resumption of normalisation dialogues with India, which is hurt and has let its feelings be known. Anyway, China cannot be expected to rush to the negotiations table with India, as it will not go down well with Pakistan, given their 'strategic alliance' from the past. That is, however, not the case with the US and President Trump. India and Indians believed that despite the visible soft corner for Pakistan in certain sections of the US administration's institutional mechanisms, Washington and New Delhi had come a long, long way from the Nixon era and the Cold War. It was especially so with the advent of India's economic reforms agenda in the early nineties, followed by bilateral defence cooperation agreements and more so the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal. But by lack of sensitivity and appreciation of India's holistic concerns on the Pakistan front, President Trump too might have put the clock back by a few years, though definitely not back to the Nixon era. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Yet, in the fast-tracked complex world that we are living in, it is still saying a lot. If nothing else, the Indian public mood would compel the government leadership on American matters from now on. A lot, however, would depend on the trade and tariff deals that the two sides are set to negotiate now, but that would satisfy only experts and strategic thinkers at best. Mollifying the street opinion would take time – and would need fresh American efforts that are not dramatic but sincere and are seen as such. The writer is a Chennai-based Policy Analyst & Political Commentator. Email: sathiyam54@ Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect Firstpost's views.
News18
12 hours ago
- Politics
- News18
CNN-News18's Op Sindoor Documentary Gets Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's Shout-Out
Last Updated: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan shared a CNN-News18 documentary on Operation Sindoor, detailing India's 88-hour assault on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan and PoK. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday morning shared a link to CNN-News18's documentary on Operation Sindoor and the India-Pakistan conflict that came after Indian armed forces struck terrorist hideouts inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). 'The inside story of Operation Sindoor that forced Pakistan to plead for ceasefire. 88 hours of frontal assault on terrorism, 88 hours of unyielding bravery of Indian Armed Forces that humbled Pakistan. Watch this @CNNnews18 special decoding everything that unfolded," Pradhan posted on X, along with a link to the documentary. The documentary titled WATCH INSIDE OPERATION SINDOOR: 88 Hours That Redefined India features CNN-News18's primetime anchors and senior editors who describe how Indian armed forces took out terrorist bases and then gave a befitting reply to Pakistani armed forces bid to attack India by striking Pakistan's air bases. India struck close to a dozen Pakistani air bases and caused extensive damage to the Nur Khan airbase. The documentary titled INSIDE OPERATION SINDOOR–The 88 Hours That Defined India | When Nur Khan Strike Spooked Pakistan features former Indian Air Force chief Retd Air Chief Marshall RKS Bhadauria, former GOC of the 15 Corps Lieutenant General DP Pandey, former NSAD member and author Tilak Devasher. Military analyst Tom Cooper also features in the documentary. The documentary also features Managing Editor Zakka Jacob, Senior Anchor and Managing Editor Anand Narasimhan, Consulting Editor Rahul Shivshankar, Executive Editor Aman Sharma and reporters on ground Ieshan Wani, Akash Sharma and Sidhant Mishra who decoded to viewers India's response to the deadly Pahalgam attack and then India's befitting response to Pakistan Army's misadventurism. They also decode how the ceasefire came into place and how in a span of 88 hours India tore apart Pakistan air defences and also took out terrorists that Pakistan shelters to fight its proxy wars. First Published: May 31, 2025, 13:51 IST
