Operation Sindoor: India Hit 13 Pakistani Air Bases, Said Ajit Doval

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, speaking at the 62nd convocation of IIT Madras on Friday, said that India has hit 13 air bases, including 9 terror bases crisscrossing Pakistan with precision targets in the Operation Sindoor and added that the entire operation took only 23 minutes.

“We have to develop our indigenous technology. Mention of Sindoor was made here. We are really proud of how much of indigenous content was there...We decided to have 9 terrorist targets in the criss-cross of Pakistan, it was not in the border areas. We missed none. We hit nowhere else except that,” said Doval, reported by ANI.

“It was precise to the point where we knew who was where. Entire operation took 23 minutes...” he added.

He also criticised foreign media for their reportage on Operation Sindoor, India’s military response to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, and challenged them to show any visuals of any destruction in India.

“Foreign press said that Pakistan did that and this...You tell me one photograph, one image, which shows any damage to any Indian (structure), even a glass pane having been broken…” said Doval.

"They wrote these things and put out things...The images only showed 13 air bases in Pakistan before and after 10th May, whether it was in Sargodha, Rahim Yar Khan, Chaklala...I am only telling you what the foreign media put out on the basis of images...We are capable of doing that damage to Pakistani air bases..." he added.

India's Operation Sindoor

Operation Sindoor was launched by India on May 7 against terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The action came after a terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 civilians.

In the early hours of May 7, nine terror camps inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) were killed, killing more than 100 terrorists.

Pakistan retaliated with missile and drone strikes, but Indian air defence systems successfully intercepted most of them. A ceasefire was later agreed upon after talks between the military commanders of both nations.