What happened in Pahalgam was profound cruelty towards victims, he said.The thinking behind Operation Sindoor was that state-sponsored terrorism from Pakistan has to stop and that country should not be able to hold India hostage to terrorism.India is not going to live under the shadow of terror and nuclear blackmail, Gen Chauhan said.On India’s military offensives, he said Indian armed forces carried out very deliberate precision strikes on Pakistani targets and some of them were as narrow as two metres.Explaining the process of the understanding on cessation of hostilities, he said Pakistan planned to carry out its counter operations against India for 48 hours but it folded up in about eight hours. And they wanted to talk, he said, highlighting the impact of Indian strikes.Pakistan’s decision to talk to India on May 10 stemmed from the realisation that it will suffer more if its operation continues, Gen Chauhan said.Around 1 am on May 10, Pakistan aimed to get India to its knees in 48 hours as multiple attacks were launched, he said.Pakistan’s operation that they thought would continue for 48 hours folded up in about eight hours and they wanted to talk, he added.When the request for talks and de-escalation came from Pakistan, we did accept it, Gen Chauhan said.On India’s overall approach, he said, “We have raised the bar; we have connected terror to water, we have drawn a new line of military operation against terror.”
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