Operation Sindoor, May 8 -- India's strikes at terrorist camps in Pakistan, hitting 9 targets successfully in the exercise on Wednesday morning was called 'Operation Sindoor' - a codename which was perhaps coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

'Operation Sindoor' came two weeks after the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Baisaran hill station. India had blamed Pakistan for the attack.

Wednesday's operation was the deepest strikes inside Pakistan's territory since 1971, according to CNN, successfully targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The operation's codename is ostensibly a reference to only men being singled out based on their faith...