2025 CE · military conflict

Operation Sindoor and May 2025 India–Pakistan Confrontation

During the night of 6–7 May 2025, India announced strikes on nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir under Operation Sindoor, describing the action as a response to the Pahalgam attack. Several days of cross-border military exchanges followed. On 10 May, the two countries' Directors General of Military Operations agreed to stop firing and military action on land, in the air and at sea from 17:00 IST.

Vikram Misri, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh at the Operation Sindoor media briefing in New Delhi on 7 May 2025 — Official photograph of the 7 May 2025 Operation Sindoor briefing. Use as a neutral official representation of the operation and confrontation; it does not independently verify operational claims made by either side. · Credit: Ministry of Defence, Government of India · License: GODL-India

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Press Information Bureau — Operation SINDOOR: India's Strategic Clarity and Calculated Force

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