India launched Operation Sindoor on Might 7, focusing on terrorist infrastructure in territories managed by Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror assault.
The Indian Embassy in Indonesia has issued a clarification, stating that remarks made by Defence Attache Captain Shiv Kumar relating to Operation Sindoor had been taken “out of context” and represent a “misrepresentation” of the content material of his presentation.
The controversy arose after the defence attache in Indonesia detailed the Indian army’s response within the preliminary section of Operation Sindoor at a seminar in an Indonesian college.
‘Quoted out of context’
In an announcement issued on X, the embassy stated, “We now have seen media experiences relating to a presentation made by the Defence Attache at a Seminar. His remarks have been quoted out of context and the media experiences are a mis-representation of the intention and thrust of the presentation made by the speaker.”
“The presentation conveyed that the Indian Armed Forces serve underneath civilian political management in contrast to another nations in our neighbourhood. It was additionally defined that the target of Operation Sindoor was to focus on terrorist infrastructure and the Indian response was non-escalatory,” the assertion added additional.
What did the defence attache say?
The Indian Navy Captain, who was talking at a seminar on “Evaluation of the Pakistan-India Air Battle and Indonesia’s Anticipatory Methods from the Perspective of Air Energy” at a college in Jakarta, prompt that the Indian Air Drive ‘misplaced fighter jets’ within the preliminary section of Operation Sindoor because it was constrained by the mandate to not assault Pakistani army institution and solely goal terrorist infrastructure.
In his presentation on June 10, the Indian defence attache stated in view of some “constraints” owing to the mandate determined by the “political management”, the Indian Air Drive couldn’t assault Pakistani army installations within the preliminary section operation.
“We did lose some plane and that occurred solely due to the constraint given by the political management to not assault the army institution or their air defence system,” he stated.
“However after the loss, we modified our techniques and we went for the army installations. So we first achieved suppression and destruction of enemy air defence after which that’s the reason all our assaults might simply undergo utilizing surface-to-air missiles and Brahmos surface-to-surface missiles,” he stated.
(With PTI inputs)
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