Kolkata, May 23 -- Calling India a "responsible power", former National Security Advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan on Friday said that Operation Sindoor demonstrated India's "tremendous strength" and said that India could have done "much more".

"Operation Sindoor has shown that India has tremendous strength, but it can also be restrained. That is an important message. We could have done much more, but the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) and Indian cabinet decided that we would just tell Pakistan to lay off, don't go forward," the former NSA told reporters at the sidelines of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) event in Kolkata.

Earlier in the day, Narayanan attended an ICC event, titled "Global and regional geopolitics, security and economics-...