India, July 4 -- "It like a live lab," Indian Army Deputy Chief Rahul R Singh said on Friday about China's interest as the primary backer for Pakistan during India's Operation Sindoor against terror launchpads across the border.

Underlining that 81 per cent of Pakistan's military equipment is Chinese, he spoke about a conflict zone being turned into testing grounds: "China has able to test his weapons against various other weapon systems that are there. It's like a live lab which is available to it."

Lt General Singh was speaking at a function organised by industry body FICCI.

He mentioned "one border, two adversaries", counting China along with Pakistan, and quickly added "actually, three!". He later listed Turkey as the third, for it...