India, May 7 -- "I'm proud of my brothers in the armed forces, who feel the pain and sorrow of their sisters' sindoor being wiped away in this tragedy and are driven to fight for justice," said Kajal Parmar, the wife of Yatishbhai Parmar and mother of 17-year-old Smit Parmar, both of whom were killed in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

Speaking to the media after India carried out precision strikes at multiple terror sites in Pakistan early Wednesday, Kajal said that the attack not just took away her husband and son but the lives and dreams of several families-fathers, mothers, children-leaving a nation in grief.

"I'm so grateful for Operation Sindoor and to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking swift action. They took my family, ...