India, May 7 -- In the wee hours of Wednesday, India launched Operation Sindoor in retaliation to the barbaric terrorist strike by Pakistan-backed terrorists who killed 26 people, all men, 25 of them tourists and 24 Hindus, in Pahalgam, Kashmir, on April 22. Nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) that reportedly housed 24 terrorist camps were destroyed in the attacks launched by India's armed forces. In foreign secretary Vikram Misri's words, the actions "were measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible" and "focused on dismantling the terrorist infrastructure and disabling terrorists likely to be sent across to India". The response was strong, responsible, and intended to pre-empt more terrorist action fr...