India, May 27 -- The chief of defence staff (CDS) and the three service chiefs watched Operation Sindoor --- New Delhi's muscular military response to the Pahalgam terror strike --- unfold in an operations room shortly after 1am on May 7, new images showed on Monday.

The photos were published by the Indian Army in the May edition of its monthly publication Baatcheet.

They showed CDS General Anil Chauhan, army chief General Upendra Dwivedi, the chief of the air staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi and other top officials monitoring the developments via live feed on multiple big screens in the army's operations room in South Block.

Chauhan, Dwivedi and Tripathi were in battle fatigues, while Singh was in...