India, Aug. 10 -- Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday opened up on the details of Operation Sindoor against Pakistan and said the first meeting regarding the anti-terror operation was held a day after the Pahalgam terror attack.

Dwivedi said that a meeting of three chiefs of armed forces was held with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on April 23, when a free hand was given to the military to decide the operation.

The Army chief took the example of chess to detail the operations conducted against Pakistan from 7 May, saying that the warfare was not anything like the conventional ones.

"In Operation Sindoor, we played chess. It means that we did not know the next move the enemy is going to take and what we were going to do. This is ...