New Delhi, July 29 -- - Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addressed the Lok Sabha on the culmination and objectives of Operation Sindoor, describing it as a decisive military and political response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack that took place on April 22. He asserted that the overall politico-military goal of the operation was to punish Pakistan for waging a proxy war through terrorism, which he termed not as "random madness" but a "well-planned strategy" and "fundamental rage" against India.

Singh said the operation, launched on May 6-7 by the Indian Armed Forces, was not about territorial capture but about destroying the terror infrastructure nurtured by Pakistan for decades. Nine terrorist camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied ...