Gandhinagar, May 17 -- Hailing the Operation Sindoor, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that for the "first time" after independence Indian military "attacked 100 km inside Pakistan and destroyed terrorist camps."

He said this while addressing an event in Pethapur, Gujarat.

Operation Sindoor launched on May 7 as a decisive military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed. Indian Armed Forces targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the death of over 100 terrorists affiliated with terror outfits like Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen.

Accompanied by Chief Minister Bhupindra Patel, the Union Home Minister inaugu...