New Delhi: India’s Operation Sindoor, a series of precise airstrikes targeting nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), was launched in response to a planned attack “aimed at igniting communal violence within Kashmir and across India”, according to Indian officials.

In a press briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri revealed key findings from the investigation into the Pahalgam terror attack, directly implicating Pakistan in the violence. He stated that the attack’s primary goal was to disrupt the developmental progress in Jammu and Kashmir, specifically targeting the region’s improving social climate.

The attack, Misri emphasised, was designed to trigger widespread religious riots throughout India. This briefing was notably shared........

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