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Operation Sindoor: strikes on nine terror sites

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: Operation Sindoor: strikes on nine terror sites (GS3 · Security, 7 May 2025)

What happened

  • Indian forces launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine terror sites in Pakistan and PoJK [PIB].
  • No Pakistani military facility was targeted [PIB].

Background

  • It followed the Pahalgam attack in which 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen were killed [PIB].

Why it matters

  • Calibrated force tests deterrence.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Bilateral relations and effect of policies of other countries on India

  1. As per PIB (2025-05-07): indian forces launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine terror sites in Pakistan and PoJK.
  2. Calibrated force tests deterrence.
Quotable data point

Indian forces launched Operation Sindoor, hitting nine terror sites in Pakistan and PoJK.

PIB: Operation Sindoor, 7 May 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: none. · Mains: cross-border terrorism.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

Sites targeted in Op Sindoor

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

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Official source: PIB: Operation Sindoor, 7 May 2025

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