Context: In a swift military action under Operation Sindoor, the Indian armed forces carried out 24 precision strikes on nine different targets against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Relevance of the Topic: Prelims: Locations in News; Operation Sindoor; Operation Abhyaas.
Operation Sindoor
- India exercised its right to respond to the Pahalgam terror attack, and the armed forces subsequently launched Operation Sindoor to destroy the camps used to train terrorists in Pakistan and PoK.
- 9 terrorist camps of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen were selected based on credible intelligence inputs and targeted to deliver justice to the victims of the Pahalgam attack and their families.
The Indian Air Force, in co-ordination with the Army, executed the attacks without intruding into Pakistan air space, unlike the two previous counter strikes carried out after the terror attacks on the Indian Army’s Brigade headquarters in Uri in 2016 and the CRPF convoy at Pulwama in 2019.
India-Pakistan: History of Wars & Conflicts
Faced with the prospect of an armed conflict with Pakistan, India conducted nationwide civil defence mock drills under ‘Operation Abhyaas.’ The drills were carried out in 244 districts to prepare the country’s readiness to deal with emergencies and terrorist attacks.
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