‘9 terror sites, 22 minutes, and trust on Indian Army’: Staff Gen called Op Sindoor a ‘trusted orchestra’

The chief of the Indian Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, called the Operation Sindoor on Saturday (Nov 22) a “trusted orchestra" in which Indian forces played a “synergistic role". He also highlighted the fact that the operation targeted the nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) in just 22 minutes. As he was speaking at the 27th convocation of NDIM in Delhi, Dwivedi said the success of the mission rested on seamless coordination and trust across all units involved.

“Operation Sindoor was a trusted orchestra where every musician played a simultaneous or synergistic role," the Army Chief said.

“That is how, in 22 minutes, we were able to destroy nine terrorist targets, and in 88 hours ensure that the battle came to an end. But more importantly, there would have been no time for decision-making had we not visualised and trusted the entire team," he added.

This was just a week after Dwivedi had offered a blunt message to Pakistan, asserting that the May confrontation under Operation Sindoor was “only a trailer."

“As far as Sindoor 1.0 is concerned, the movie had not even started. We just showed them a trailer and that trailer ended in 88 hours," he said at a curtain-raiser for the Chanakya Defence Dialogue.

China's fake narrative post Op SIndoor

A US advisory body's latest report has alleged that China carried out an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven “disinformation campaign" after India's Operation Sindoor in May. As per the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission's report on Wednesday (Nov 19), Beijing used fake images and social media accounts to influence global defence perceptions for Rafale fighter jets.

Operation Sindoor was India's retaliation against the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir. Under the operation, India targeted nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The Commission stated that China allegedly deployed “fake social media accounts to propagate AI images of supposed ‘debris’ from planes," portraying Indian and French aircraft as having been destroyed by Chinese systems.