India, May 27 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India will no longer consider acts of terrorism as mere proxy war and called the May 7 strikes on nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) a turning point and retaliation to a planned war against India.

"Until now, we used to call these terror attacks a proxy war. But after the May 7 [Operation Sindoor strikes], we can no longer make the mistake of calling it a proxy war," Modi said in Gandhinagar on the second day of his first visit to his home state of Gujarat after the launch of Operation Sindoor.

Modi, whose arrival in Gujarat on Monday coincided with the 11th anniversary of taking office as prime minister, said the armed forces identified ni...