It was 30-minute briefing but quite a serious and a significant matter.
Director General Defence Intelligence Agency Lt Gen DS Rana informed the Foreign Service Attaches of 70 nations on the successful conduct of Operation Sindoor at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi.
The military also placed credible records of the relentless anti-India misinformation campaign conducted by Pakistan and its ramifications on regional peace and stability.
“Synergised force application through jointness and integration achieved in Operation Sindoor with demonstrated battle effectiveness of indigenous kinetic force multipliers was showcased to the foreign service attaches," a source said.
Narratives and symbolism count every-bit and so every effort is being made to keep Indian narratives in control f things.
Utter Falsehood and even giving out 'humiliated defeat' as victories in Pakistani art. But there is a threshold issue this time and it appears Pakistan stands exposed in multiple manners.
New Delhi ordered surgical strike in 2016 and in 2019 terror hubs were destroyed at Blakot in 2019. But this time India crossed a barrier of self-restraint.
Indian Prime Minister has pushed the button little harder. There is another way of looking at things too. India and the rest of the world were not sure – how much Modi would stretch things.
He said that Pakistan should not cross the line. In the process - New Delhi has shown it has grown up. The self-inflicted over cautious line has been breached and rightly so.
New Delhi is fed up with Pakistan's nuclear Blackmail. It is also fed up with the well known hypocrisy of the Americans. This was actually overdue.
Pakistan army is facing immense challenges. Therefore to justify its relevance and create a distraction from its administrative and political woes, the Pak army and its chief has deliberately taken the state into a state of WAR.
Dr S Jaishankar's security enhanced with bulletproof car
As per reports, security of External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has been increased with the addition of a bulletproof car and tighter measures around his residence in New Delhi.
The External Affairs Minister already had Z-category security, provided by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) commandos. A team of 33 commandos is deployed to protect him round the clock.
The Z-category security cover, the third-highest degree of security in India, includes 22 personnel, including 4 to 6 commandos from the National Security Guard (NSG) and local police, along with at least one bulletproof vehicle. It also provides escort vehicles. This level of security is typically assigned to high-profile politicians and celebrities, especially those facing specific threats.
Earlier, in October 2023, Jaishankar's security had been upgraded from Y to Z category. The upgrade was reportedly based on a threat assessment by the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Shashi Tharoor's 4-point objection to Trump's claim that he 'stopped India-Pak war'
Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor criticised US President Donald Trump's portrayal of the events as a US-led de-escalation.
"First... it implies a false equivalence between the victim and the perpetrator and overlooks the US' past stance against Pakistan's well-documented support for cross-border terrorism."
"We're not the terrorist-dispatching state," Tharoor said during an interview. "We didn't hide Osama bin Laden, we didn't do 26/11...the victim can't be equated to the perpetrator," he noted.
Second, Tharoor said Trump's remarks "offer Pakistan a negotiating framework which it certainly has not earned".
"India will never negotiate with a terrorist gun pointed at its head," he said.
"You cannot reward a rogue state that has sent terrorists across the border by giving them the negotiation they couldn't earn in any other more respectable way," the Thiruvananthapuram MP said.
Third, the Congress leader said Trump's statement "internationalises" the Kashmir issue - something India has consistently rejected.
"India sees the problem as an internal affair and has never sought foreign mediation," Tharoor noted.
Lastly, Tharoor said Trump's intervention "re-hyphenates" India and Pakistan in global discourse.
"For decades, world leaders have been encouraged not to club their visits to India with Pakistan. Starting with President Clinton in 2000, no US President had done so. This is a major backward step," he added.
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