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3 days ago
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Operation Sindoor: Pakistan wanted India 'to its knees in 48 hours', but folded up in 8 hours, says CDS Chauhan
CDS Anil Chauhan has revealed that Pakistan planned to bring India 'to its knees' in 48 hours through its so-called Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10. But the attacks folded within 8 hours, forcing Pakistan to seek ceasefire, he said. read more Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said Pakistan had planned to bring India 'to its knees in 48 hours' with its so-called Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10. However, the attacks collapsed within 8 hours, after which Pakistan reached out and said it wanted to talk. General Chauhan made the remarks during a lecture on 'Future Wars and Warfare' at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He said Pakistan launched the operation around 1 am on May 10, carrying out multiple attacks, but their plan failed quickly in response to further retaliation under India's Operation Sindoor. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'Then they picked up the phone and said they wanted to talk,' Gen Chauhan said. 'We didn't see each other. We saw it either through radar or at different ranges, except for what was happening on the LoC. It was a mixture of kinetic and non-kinetic war. When I say non-kinetic, that happened in the information domain and cyber domain. And, of course, there were kinetic operations where destruction was being caused. It was also nonlinear in nature. So there's something happening on the LoC and something happening as far back as Sargodha.' This is a developing story.
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
Pak wanted India on its knees in 48 hrs, folded up in 8 hrs to talk: CDS
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said Tuesday that Pakistan wanted to bring India 'to its knees in 48 hours' with Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos on May 10, but the attacks 'folded up in 8 hours' after which Pakistan 'picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk'. He made these remarks while delivering a lecture on 'Future Wars and Warfare' at the Savitribai Phule Pune University. Detailing the Pakistani response to Operation Sindoor, General Chauhan said Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos was 'launched by Pakistan on 10th of May at about 1 am' and 'its aim was to get India down to its knees in 48 hours. Multiple attacks were launched'. He said although India had actually hit only terror targets, the Pakistanis 'escalated this conflict… into the military domain'. Stating that armed forces are the most rational actors in conflict situations, he explained why Pakistan called India. 'I think that the rationale behind this… realisation coming in… stemmed from two facts. One is that they must have assumed that if they continued this mode, they are likely to lose much more. Hence, they picked up the telephone. And second, since they had struck us at multiple fronts, they still did not have the benefit of understanding what they had struck. So, they must have thought they must have struck and, hence, they would like to talk now. And if they don't, they will tend to lose more.' Later, after a couple of days, Pakistan must have realised that their attacks had failed, he said. 'So, these were the two factors which would have made them think. But it's only after, say, one or two days, they would have realised that all… the kind of attacks they had launched against us were not fortified and they had all kind of failed.' Responding to a student's question on the losses faced by Pakistan during the hostilities, General Chauhan said, 'When I was asked about losses on our side, I said these are not important. The results and how you act are important. So it would not be very correct to talk about the losses, numbers etc.' 'You see, in a match, suppose you go into a football match and you win 3-2… that's an even-sided match. But suppose you go into a cricket Test match and win by an innings, then there is no question of how many wickets and how many balls and how many players. It's an innings (victory),' he said. 'But since there is always this inquisitiveness as to the results of your strikes… At some point of time, we will take out this particular data, and share it, to answer the queries and inquisitiveness of people… who keep asking 'How many aircraft did we destroy? How many radars did we destroy?' We will make a rough assessment of that and come out with that shortly,' he said. He said the government's objective behind Operation Sindoor was not retribution but to draw the limits of tolerance with Pakistan. 'Let me talk about reason… Operation Sindoor, as far as the government is concerned, was not about retribution. I think it was about drawing these limits of tolerance… This state-sponsored terrorism from Pakistan had to stop, and Pakistan should not be able to hold India hostage to terror activities.' Another point made by the operation was that India was not going to live under the shadow of terror and nuclear blackmail, he said. He also spoke about the emotions of India's citizens. 'The emotion… among the people of India was revenge and retribution… and to get the perpetrators to justice. That I think was playing in everyone's mind, that is the kind of emotion and public sentiment that was happening. And at the end of it, there was probably some sort of satisfaction, (and also) anxiety. Anxiety during the operation.' On the risks involved during military operations, he said, 'You can't be 100 per cent prepared for every kind of contingency and you can't have 100 per cent of the information about that. So you are always groping a bit in the dark when you are carrying out military operations. In every military operation, there is an element of risk involved. The only thing is that it should be a calculated kind of a risk.' 'In a war, even if there are setbacks, we have to adapt, understand what went wrong and go out again.' He said as an organisation, one must have an offensive spirit. 'That's why I said in a couple of my interviews that losses are not important, the outcome is,' he said. He reiterated that Operation Sindoor was not over and that there was only temporary cessation of operations. Soham is a Correspondent with the Indian Express in Pune. A journalism graduate, he was a fact-checker before joining the Express. Soham currently covers education and is also interested in civic issues, health, human rights, and politics. ... Read More
Time of India
3 days ago
- General
- Time of India
Operation Sindoor: Pakistan dossier 'reveals' 7 more targets India hit
NEW DELHI: Pakistan said India conducted strikes at seven more locations than the targets officially acknowledged by Indian armed forces between May 7 and 10 during Operation Sindoor . A Pakistan govt document on its Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos (Iron Wall) and India's "unprovoked aggression", shared with its media, lists out Indian drone strikes at Attock, Bahawalnagar, Gujrat and Jhang (Punjab province), Peshawar (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province), and Chhor and Hyderabad (Sindh province), which it claimed killed many civilians. None of these places were mentioned in the detailed briefings conducted by Indian foreign and military establishments. "We had disclosed the targets we hit in the briefings. This Pakistani document could be a propaganda attempt to show that India also targeted civilian sites," an Indian defence official said. After Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians, India on May 7 hit 4 terror hubs in Pakistan and five in POK, in calibrated strikes against terror infrastructure across the border, without targeting any Pakistani military base or civilian centre. The targets ranged from Sawai Nala camp in Muzaffarabad in north to Markaz Taiba in Muridke (Lashkar-e-Taiba HQ) and Markaz Subhan at Bahawalpur (Jaish-e-Muhammed HQ) in south. After Pakistan escalated the situation by targeting Indian military bases and civilian centres with missiles and waves of drone swarms, IAF struck at least nine Pakistani airbases and at least four military radar sites.
Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
On May 10, Pakistan folded after brief fight
Pakistan's Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos retaliation to Indian Operation Sindoor on May 10 lasted just eight hours with Islamabad desperately calling the US to intervene on its behalf for a ceasefire , after four major air strikes by IAF pulverized the air-bases, air assets and air defenses of the enemy on the intervening night of May 10, according to people familiar with the matter. IAF fighters launched precision missiles that struck Pakistan four times on May 10 with Rafale-launched SCALP missiles and SU-30 MKI-launched Brahmos missiles taking out the northern air command-control network at Nur Khan airbase in Chaklala in the first strike itself, the people added. The last strike was carried out at Jacobabad and Bholari air bases but by that time Pakistan had folded and was seeking US intervention for cease fire. The so-called Bunyan al-Marsoos operation that Pakistan launched at 1.00 am on May 10 with the promise of destroying Indian air bases in the next 48 hours as per communication intercepts, lasted only till 930 am as India went in hard against Pakistan using an assortment of air to surface missiles, the people said. The Pakistani Air Force hardly flew on May 10,they said. India's S-400 air defence system in Adampur went into action no less than 11 times during Operation Sindoor and destroyed a Pakistani SAAB-2000 airborne early warning system as far as 315 kilometers away deep in Pakistan. Indian Air Force also has proof of its missiles having downed one C-130 J medium lift aircraft, a JF-17 and two F-16 fighters on ground and in the air, they added. The IAF used both SCALP and Brahmos in tandem so that targets were not missed. During the May 7 attack on nine terrorist camps, seven camps were hit by an assortment of loitering ammunition of Army, Air Force and the Navy with terror factories at Muridke and Bahawalpur being hit by SCALP and Brahmos missiles with precision guided capabilities. According to the people cited above, on May 10, the Indian strikes took out a Chinese-made LY-80 air defence system using a HARPY kamikaze drone at Lahore, while an Indian missile took out the prized HQ-9 (Chinese version of S-300) at Malir in Karachi. The Indian Navy was prepared to target Karachi Naval Port on May 10 morning with its armada moving 260 miles off Makaran Coast but the Pakistan DGMO called up to say that there would be a retaliation in case India used Brahmos missiles to strike at the port. The threat for retribution from Pakistan left Indian armed forces as well as the political leadership unfazed but by May 10 afternoon, the PAK DGMO was requesting a no fire pact .
Hindustan Times
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Four air-launched missile strikes by IAF on May 10 and Pakistan was on mat
Pakistan's Operation Bunyan al-Marsoos retaliation to Indian Operation Sindoor on May 10 lasted just eight hours with Islamabad desperately calling the US to intervene on its behalf for a ceasefire, after four major air strikes by IAF pulverized the air-bases, air assets and air defenses of the enemy on the intervening night of May 10, according to people familiar with the matter. IAF fighters launched precision missiles that struck Pakistan four times on May 10 with Rafale-launched SCALP missiles and SU-30 MKI-launched Brahmos missiles taking out the northern air command-control network at Nur Khan airbase in Chaklala in the first strike itself, the people added. The last strike was carried out at Jacobabad and Bholari air bases but by that time Pakistan had folded and was seeking US intervention for cease fire. The so-called Bunyan al-Marsoos operation that Pakistan launched at 1.00 am on May 10 with the promise of destroying Indian air bases in the next 48 hours as per communication intercepts, lasted only till 930 am as India went in hard against Pakistan using an assortment of air to surface missiles, the people said. India's S-400 air defence system in Adampur went into action no less than 11 times during Operation Sindoor and destroyed a Pakistani SAAB-2000 airborne early warning system as far as 315 kilometres away deep in Pakistan. Indian Air Force also has proof of its missiles having downed one C-130 J medium lift aircraft, a JF-17 and two F-16 fighters on ground and in the air, they added. The IAF used both SCALP and Brahmos in tandem so that target was not missed. During the May 7 attack on nine terrorist camps, seven camps were hit by an assortment of loitering ammunition of Army, Air Force and the Navy with terror factories at Muridke and Bahawalpur being hit by SCALP and Brahmos missiles with precision guided capabilities. According to the people cited above, on May 10, the Indian strikes took out a Chinese-made LY-80 air defence system using a HARPY kamikaze drone at Lahore, while an Indian missile took out the prized HQ-9 (Chinese version of S-300) at Malir in Karachi. The Indian Navy was prepared to target Karachi Naval Port on May 10 morning with its armada moving 260 miles off Makaran Coast but the Pakistan DGMO called up to say that there would be a retaliation in case India used Brahmos missiles to strike at the port. The threat for retribution from Pakistan left Indian armed forces as well as the political leadership unfazed but by May 10 afternoon, the PAK DGMO was requesting a no fire pact .
