Jammu, May 20 -- Asserting that Operation Sindoor is not over and it only remains suspended for the time being, a senior Army official on Tuesday said the Indian Army remains alert, ready and, if challenged once more, will respond yet again.

The Poonch sector witnessed heightened tensions and artillery shelling attacks nearly two weeks ago, with the recent attacks here by Pakistan followed by India's retaliatory Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that claimed the lives of 26 civilians.

A wave of artillery shelling, missile and drone strikes in the Jammu region, particularly Poonch, killed 27 people and injured over 7...