Nagpur, May 7 -- Kunal Ganbote, son of Pahalgam attack victim Kaustabh Ganbote, thanked the Indian Army and government for conducting 'Operation Sindoor' in which the Indian Armed Forces targeted nine terror hideouts deep inside Pakistan on Wednesday morning.

Speaking to ANI, Ganbote asserted that the entire country had been waiting for "such action" and stated that naming the operation "Sindoor" was a mark of respect towards women.

"We all were waiting for such action to be taken, and we have this hope from the Indian government. The operation's name is "sindoor" and I think it was named this way to respect women like my mother," he said.

In Kanpur, the wife of Shubham Dwivedi, a 31-year-old businessman killed in the April 22 Pahalgam...