Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, addressing the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries Chiefs’ Conclave, detailed India’s Operation Sindoor and its cross-border impact. He said over 100 casualties occurred at the LoC, dismissing claims of Indian Army’s unpreparedness. Ghai recalled over 28,000 terror incidents since the 1980s and 15,000 civilian deaths in J&K.
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00:00response to evolving threats, complex operational environments and are imperative to respond
00:08to the scourge of terrorism. By sharing our experience, India offers not only a military
00:15account but also operational insights and humanitarian lessons that are deeply relevant
00:21to shaping future peacekeeping doctrine. The challenges we encountered, the strategies
00:27we developed and the outcomes achieved can contribute to refining our collective approach
00:33to security, resilience and the protection of vulnerable communities. Today, as we turn our
00:40attention to Operation Sindur, I urge you to look beyond tactical narratives and to consider how
00:47the lessons from this recent chapter in India's fight against terror can strengthen our joint
00:53capabilities and enhance the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions worldwide.
00:59In my interaction with some of my foreign service at ACHI friends last night during the ice breaking
01:08dinner, I was also urged by some of them to speak about this and that's why while the conclave remains
01:17very much about peacekeeping, we did think it important and imperative to give everybody an insight
01:24into events that you are already well familiar with, but we thought we will just highlight
01:28a few things. On the screen, ladies and gentlemen, is shown my mandate and that is why I am here
01:35to speak to you today.
01:37Okay, now, you know, we thought we will put it into perspective a little historical context.
01:44If you look at this graph, ladies and gentlemen, it's in the late 80s that this problem started
01:50in Jammu and Kashmir. And as you can see, since then we've had more than 28,000 terror incidents.
01:58Since the 90s, we've had more than 100,000 people from the minorities that have been compelled
02:04to move out of Jammu and Kashmir, a migration of more than 60,000 families and also 15,000
02:11innocent civilians and more than 3,000 security personnel have been killed. And it's very clear
02:19as to where this is coming from.
02:22Now, you know, why I also chose to flash in front of you the historical context is that it
02:29is not as if Operation Sindur happened overnight. If you take your mind back to the attack on
02:36our parliament back in 2001, we'd then been compelled to carry out some kind of a mobilization
02:44on our borders. We remained there for the better part of almost a year. Yet, at that point in
02:52time, wiser sense prevailed and we didn't take matters forward. If you take your mind back
02:59to 2016, where some of our security personnel were barbarically ambushed, some of their tents
03:06set on fire, we then resorted to an action which was yet in the vicinity of the line of
03:12control. Go, take your mind back to 2019, we carried out a precision strike across the line
03:20of control and then restricted it to that. But this time, you know, it was the intensity
03:28and the magnitude of the events that took place that we were compelled into the kind of action
03:33that you are now well familiar with. So, what happened in Pehelgaam? And where is Pehelgaam?
03:40You see the little star on the map. It is, of course, a tourist attraction, one of the most
03:45beautiful places that you can visit. And having commanded, you know, the 15 core in Kashmir myself,
03:52I can testify to that, that it'll probably be, if some of you have seen it, for others that haven't,
03:59amongst the most beautiful places that you can go to. Approximately 7000 feet above mean
04:04sea level and replete with exquisite meadows and valleys. 30 million tourists, ladies and
04:11gentlemen, thronged Jammu and Kashmir last year. And many of these would have had Pehelgaam
04:17on their itinerary. And yet, on the 22nd of April, terror came calling. And how? Sponsored terrorists
04:28from across the line of control, killed 26 innocent tourists, singled them out, identified them,
04:38asked for the community that they came from, and shot them in cold blood in front of their
04:44families and loved ones. There were immediate claimers. You know, this was glory. But yet,
04:54the Kashmir resistant front, that claimed the attack initially, realized that possibly matters
05:00had gone beyond their control, immediately later withdrew. And that, of course, follows a pattern.
05:11It set into motion a process. Everybody knew that a response was inevitable. But we took our time,
05:18ladies and gentlemen. The Chief of Army Staff has probably alluded to this in some of his exchanges
05:25with the media that there was complete flexibility for the armed forces to carry out and prosecute
05:31the actions that followed. So, between the 22nd of April and the night of the 6th and 7th of May,
05:39the actions that you see on your screen were evolving and unfolding. So, we were appreciating enemy
05:46courses of action and we were prioritizing our targets. I will just speak in a moment about that.
05:53We carried out certain precautionary deployment on our borders to make sure that the enemy was deterred.
06:01And, of course, there was a lot of inter-service government departments and agencies
06:06that were coordinating amongst themselves. The final selection of targets was carried out
06:10from a large number of targets that we kind of scrutinized. And, of course, while all this was
06:21happening, there was a very harmonized and proactive information warfare campaign that was also unfolding.
06:29So, when I speak about the targets, you can see nine dots on the map in front of you. The ones in red
06:37are the ones that were engaged finally in the early hours of 7th of May by the Indian Army
06:45with its vectors. And the two in blue were engaged by the Indian Air Force. That is not to say that the
06:52Indian Navy was not involved in this process. Some of the vectors that were utilized also, some of the
06:58personnel that were manning those vectors came from the Indian Navy. They were very much part of the
07:03rehearsals and the coordination that was happening before these strikes were actually carried out.
07:09So, it's very safe and very correct to say that it was very much a tri-service operation and the
07:18strikes were precise to make sure that there was no collateral damage. So, you are already familiar with
07:26these but the purple line that you see on the map is the line of control. So, if you correlate the
07:33targets to that, it will tell you as to where exactly these are located. So, out of the nine, five were
07:40located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and this is the first of those. As you can see, you can see the
07:47effects before and after and some high-value targets that were eliminated.
07:55This is Kotli. This is opposite the Rajauri, Minda sector of Jammu and Kashmir for those of you who are
08:04familiar. The videos all of you have seen, ladies and gentlemen.
08:21Again, near Kotli
08:26and all of these targets were engaged by the Indian Army
08:30and the vectors that we used were of course precision munitions, loiter munitions and all
08:39part of the inventory of the Indian Army. Some weapons were indigenous and some of course
08:45that we had from earlier times were ex-import.
08:52This is Bhimbar, you can see the location on the map
08:54and if you see the video here where you can see the mortar bomb coming out of the RPV.
09:12As we come further down, you can see now that this target is now shifted out of Punjab-occupied
09:19Kashmir and why I decided to show it to you on the map like this is because this was
09:24unprecedented. When I spoke about the historical context ladies and gentlemen,
09:29you know every time we've been hit by terror, we've tried to be different and therefore our actions
09:36have been different from those that we've carried out hitherto for on previous occasions and it was
09:42again different this time and so we went into the heartland of Pakistan and I think that's why we
09:49achieved the surprise that we did.
10:06We come down to Murid K and this is of course the terror hub of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Now that's the Indian Air Force strike, you can see on the screen right on top.
10:17And of course the before and after pictures, some high value targets that we neutralized.
10:24All in all, I've said this earlier, in the strikes that we carried out in the early hours of 7th of May,
10:31more than 100 terrorists were neutralized. This is of course Bhavalpur, if you go back to the second star on the map,
10:38these are the Maxar images of before and after and that is why I spoke of the precision you can see on the right as to where the rockets and the missiles have gone through.
10:52There was of course, after all this had happened, a very blatant flaunting of the nexus which I would say even surprised us.
11:06That caution had been thrown to the winds and the picture says it all. Proscribed terrorists by the United Nations leading a prayer service for those that had been killed and the who's who from the Pakistan Army no less than the GOC of the 4 Corps himself attending the funeral ceremony, apart of course from many others that were prominent and were present to that day.
11:34So, if you want to carry out an analysis of what happened and why it happened, the fact that the Pakistan Army and its chief were under duress at the time that this happened is known to everybody.
11:52And therefore, there was a need for him to revive not only his image but that of the Pak Army itself.
12:00And I think the best way and the only way that is known to them was to do what they did as cowardly as it may have been and the inevitability of the Indian response I think was very much there if you were going to carry out this kind of an action in the manner that it was perpetrated.
12:24It was perpetrated and of course, it doesn't take much to claim victory especially when there hasn't been kinetic contact and that was more a result because we were very clear as to what we were after.
12:40So, we went after terrorists and once that had been achieved, it wasn't our intention to escalate it unless compelled to do so.
12:50So, there was also cross border firing by Pakistan immediately once the terror targets were engaged.
13:05You can see the number of ceasefire violations on the top and this carried on for a while and at that point in time, if you recollect my media interaction, I'd said about 35 to 40 is what our estimate was.
13:18But the Pakistanis possibly unwittingly let out their awards list, I think last month it was on the 14th of August and the number of posthumous awards that they awarded suggests to us now that their casualties in the line of control were also in excess of 100.
13:40We of course, we responded to these, you know, you can see some of the actions that were carried out on the line of control and we were of course prepared for this.
13:55You know, often in a lot of exchanges on the media that I've seen, I've seen some people suggest that we were after terror targets and therefore we were not prepared for the eventualities that would follow.
14:07I think that's very naive and, you know, it's almost churlish to suggest that a professional army such as the Indian army would go into this kind of an action not preparing for the contingencies.
14:19We had war game four to five steps ahead and we knew that the Pakistanis were going to do this.
14:25So, we went and hit them on the second layer, you know, which is not something that they expected on the line of control and that's why they had the number of casualties that they did.
14:34Okay, so the drones came and that was especially large numbers even after the two DGMOs had spoken and I think it's only congenital and in the wane of the enemy that we have to go back on their word.
14:51And the drones came after the two DGMOs had spoken and, you know, there was some kind of an understanding to seize hostilities.
14:58You saw some of those engagements and you can see that, you know, retaliation, rockets, drones.
15:06I think everything was a dismal failure and I think in large part to the very strong integrated air defense that we could put up.
15:15And you can see on the left that, you know, a variety and class of drones was utilized in an attempt to cause casualties and damage to men and material.
15:27But everything was a dismal failure.
15:30On the right you can see one of the, you know, one of the, one of the missiles that was utilized.
15:40So, this of course then led us to, you know, swing the Indian Air Force into action and in precision strikes that they carried out on the night of the 9th and 10th of May.
15:53Now, we hit 11 of their air bases and of late, I think the air chief has spoken about that.
15:59If you see, eight air bases, three hangars and four radars were damaged.
16:06Pakistani air assets were destroyed on the ground.
16:10So, we know for sure that one C-130 class of aircraft and one AEW, four to five fighter jets.
16:19And of course, they were assets that were also destroyed in air.
16:24And we now know that the world's longest ever ground to air kill at 300 kilometers plus.
16:32And five, of course, high tech fighters.
16:36I think the impunity with which these attacks were carried out is what is significant.
16:43The Indian Navy was also very much in action, ladies and gentlemen.
16:47And this is possibly a fact that is not so well known.
16:50But the Navy had sailed into the Arabian Sea.
16:54And when the DGMO spoke, they were very well poised.
16:59And had the enemy decided to take it any further, it could have been catastrophic for them.
17:07Not only from the sea, but from other dimensions as well.
17:11The perpetrators of the attack at Pahalgam and the Indian Army will chase them to the depths of hell.
17:25And we did.
17:26It took us 96 days, but we did not let them rest.
17:30And finally, ladies and gentlemen, when these three were found and terminated clinically, it seemed as if they were exhausted of running.
17:41And they also seemed very malnourished.
17:44So, we kept them relentlessly under pressure.
17:48It also suggests to you as to how difficult counter-terrorist operations can be in a place like Jammu and Kashmir.
17:56You know, often people can turn around and tell you that where have they vanished.
18:00But it is sometimes like searching for a needle in a haystack.
18:05And, you know, while it may seem very simple to the non-discerning and those that are not initiated.
18:13But these things take time.
18:15Generating intelligence can take a while.
18:18But as you can see, you know, the Home Minister has spoken about this in the Indian Parliament.
18:25They were eliminated.
18:27And justice was yet again served.
18:31There has been a doctrinal shift in our strategy against terror.
18:34Our Prime Minister has spoken about it.
18:36And these are the three things he said.
18:38The terror attacks are an act of war.
18:41And therefore, there will be decisive retaliation.
18:43We will not succumb to nuclear blackmail.
18:46And there is no distinction between terrorists and their sponsors.
18:51So, if I was to just encapsulate this whole operation.
18:56You know, 88 hours is what it took for the enemy to come and ask for a cessation of hostilities.
19:03You are well aware of that.
19:05For that call to be made by my counterpart then.
19:09We achieved our politico-military aims.
19:12We hit nine targets across the breadth of Pakistan.
19:16This is, of course, a maturing of India's doctrine beyond the binaries of peace and war.
19:21You will see, as you did this time, a measured compelling from us.
19:25And, of course, this was a fusion of military precision, diplomatic agility, informational superiority, and economic leverage.
19:33You know, I am speaking about the Indus Water Treaty of 1960 being put into abeyance the moment the terror attack was perpetrated at Pehelgaam.
19:45So, if I was also to then put this into now those four domains.
19:50And, you can see, I will just request you to read through this.
19:55I have already spoken about most of this.
20:00As far as our military actions were concerned, ladies and gentlemen, they were targeted, controlled, non-escalatory.
20:06And we openly acknowledged them to maintain our credibility.
20:10We also made sure that we put into place critical and significant conventional measures to apply pressure.
20:18We carried out some significant and telling forward deployments.
20:23And extended our punitive reach to hitherto for unprecedented levels.
20:30And of course, if we have to engage with this fulfillment here, our brethren and our brethren are in the situation.
20:37So what's theiques and comments regarding your view should actually be explained?
20:39So, then I think that's a good question.
20:40On Saturday we have to jake up a couple of different cases.
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20:44I'm so glad we started to try to frame that carefully.
20:47And a couple of weeks need to pivot on to move our vessel.
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20:52We did not part of the remarkable tension without achieving any thoughts.
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20:56We've around to have more implement those foundations, where we know the challenges everywhere.
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