After India launched strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (Retd.) told India Today TV that a very clear message needed to be sent, and it has been sent. He added that terrorism will not be tolerated.

Talking to India Today, on being asked if the Pakistani army and Pakistani army chief General Asim Munir is desperate for an escalatory retaliation after Operation Sindoor, RKS Bhadauria said that Pakistani army, in the aftermath of what happened, will be desperate enough and might not stop. “They would act irrationally in all probability,” he added.

RKS Bhadauria said that if the Pakistani army has “some sense of rationality”, their response should “reasonably calibrated”. He added that we must be prepared for any action and ensure that India must defend effectively. “I am sure our Armed forces are well prepared to do that,” he said.

He further said that in the long run, the retaliation against Pakistan was an important action and a “very robust one”. “The nature of the barbaric Pahalgam attack was such that it had to be responded,” Bhadauria said. He added that internationally, Pakistani needs to be isolated and the world needs to ask them questions.

While the Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out air-to-surface missile strikes, the Indian Army simultaneously launched surface-to-surface missiles, sources told India Today TV. The coordinated precision attacks reportedly targeted terror infrastructure linked to banned outfits Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen. The strikes were in retaliation to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that claimed 26 lives. More than 80 terrorists were killed in the overnight operation.