100 Terrorists Killed : DM Rajnath Tells All-Party Meet On Op Sindoor

New Delhi: Over 100 terrorists were killed in Operation Sindoor – India’s military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack – Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said at an all-party briefing Thursday. Defence Minister also told the All Party Meet that Operation Sindoor is an ongoing operation,Stating therein that while India does not want to escalate the situation at this point, it will hit back if Pakistan strikes.
The number of dead has gone up from 70 reported Wednesday evening and reached 100 Thursday morning. Reports also said that 60 terrorists had been injured.The meeting was held a day after India carried out calibrated airstrikes at nine locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and destroyed terror infrastructure used by Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba to carry out attacks on Indian soil. According to sources, the Defence Minister shared information about Tuesday’s strikes, while stressing that the government cannot share all details due to the situation’s sensitivity.
Sindoor was a synchronised 25-minute strike – using precision weapons like the SCALP missile and HAMMER bomb – at nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, or PoK. The targets included the HQs and training camps of terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed; a proxy of the former carried out the Pahalgam attack in which 26 people, most civilians, were killed and the latter for the 2019 Pulwama attack that killed 40 soldiers. The targets were chosen based on “credible intelligence and their involvement in cross-border terrorism”, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi of the Army said Wednesday in a press briefing. No Pak military establishment was targeted and the operation was timed to minimise civilian casualties, Colonel Qureshi said. She was accompanied by Wing Commander Vyomika Singh of the Air Force, who said the Indian military stands ready in case the Pak military retaliates.