Dehradun, May 21 -- The Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Board has decided to include a chapter on Operation Sindoor in the history textbooks of its 451 affiliated madrasas, board chairman Mufti Shamoon Qasmi said on Tuesday. This announcement came following his meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah and defence minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi on Sunday to congratulate them on the successful execution of Operation Sindoor - military air strikes targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). "I along with Sufi saints and respected Muslim scholars met Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh on Saturday. We congratulated the country, the government, the home minister, and Prime Minister Modi on the success of Operation Sindoor," Qasmi said. "Our next step is to include the story of Operation Sindoor in our madrasa curriculum. Just as we are working to bring our madrasas into the mainstream, from which Congress kept them isolated for 60 years, we will strive under the leadership of chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to ensure that students learn about this significant operation," he said. "It is important for the general public, especially our children, to understand what Operation Sindoor was and why it was necessary. It was needed because Pakistan, a rogue nation, committed atrocities against our innocent countrymen. Teaching them a lesson was essential," he said. He said the madrasas under the madrasa education board follow the NCERT based curriculum. "We will soon convene a meeting of the curriculum committee for the inclusion of Operation Sindoor in the history textbooks," he said, adding that they will discuss the modalities of how specific chapters can be introduced within the NCERT framework....