The Indian Armed Forces on Wednesday launched coordinated strikes on nine terror sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the brutal Pahalgam terror attack. This tri-services action—by the Army, Navy, and Air Force—marked India’s most significant military operation since the 1971 war.
The operation was named ‘Operation Sindoor’, a symbolic gesture referencing sindoor, the vermilion worn by married Hindu women as a mark of their marital bond.
The operation name reflects the personal tragedy of 25 Indian women who were widowed in the Pahalgam attack, where victims were singled out by religion and executed in front of their families. One Nepali citizen also died in the attack.
Tourists were targeted, and families destroyed. Images of a newlywed woman sitting beside her slain Navy officer husband, and another wife smiling in a boat just a day before losing her partner, gripped the nation with grief and rage.
