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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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All of us,

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every single man in that room,

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every single man that
was firing those weapons,

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every single commander that
was sitting in an operation room,

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monitoring that operation had
been seething,

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seething with anger.

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At the manner in which
innocent lives were snuffed out.

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To me, it was very shocking
and it was also something

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which gives you that
resolve to hit back.

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So like I think all
citizens of the country,

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we were actually hit by
the brutality of this attack.

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I think it was most barbaric.

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We will go after them.

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Whether on the ground, in
the sky, or deep underground,

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wherever they are.

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We will not forgive.

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Any act of terror will be
considered as an act of war.

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If there is even escalation to
this particular conflict, so be it.

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And then we went into
full-fledged war mode I would say.

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Prime Minister told me that we
should call it Operation Sindoor.

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We were ready and our
fingers were on the trigger.

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And nothing stopped us
and we were no holds barred.

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All the officers and
men were fully motivated.

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The entire nation's
hope rested on us.

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We will unfold it like a good movie.

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So, the Prime Minister said,

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waha se goli,
(if they'll fire bullets)

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yaha se gola.
(we will drop bombs)

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The Prime Minister
said we will go after them.

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Whether on the ground, in
the sky, or deep underground,

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wherever they are.

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We will not forgive.

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Time has come.

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Time to deliver.

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Take a deep breath.

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Have confidence that all
preparations you have done is best

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and nothing more is to be done.

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And this is the time to prove
yourself, prove your capability.

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And we will unfold
it like a good movie

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as far as this entire delivery
of punitive strike is concerned.

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I was pretty confident of my
own Air Force's capabilities.

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The entire nation's
hope rested on us.

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We were to avenge these killings
and it was on our shoulders.

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I was part of a strike package
wherein we went and struck Muridke.

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I was given an opportunity

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which for me like any other
soldier was a matter of huge pride.

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I was part of a package that
is going to strike Bahawalpur.

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Every guy wearing that uniform

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wants that one
opportunity in his life

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to do something
that actually matters.

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Once you have done your planning,

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once you have given your orders,

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the execution has to
be left to the last man.

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You have to have that faith in him

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that whatever decisions
he will take at that time

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or she will take will
be the right decision.

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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We returned short of midnight
and went for our individual sorties.

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The aircraft were already
ready, prepared for us.

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We walked to the
aircraft and that is the time

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you actually speak to that aircraft.

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For the next two to three hours
that is going to be the place

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where you will probably
come back alive,

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not come back alive or probably
you are going to change history.

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Finally I shut the canopy
and I waved off my chalk.

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The kick that you get
when you release the brakes

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at the take-off roll,

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it pushes you back into your seat.

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So that feeling of you are
actually going to take off

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for a mission that critical
is a different feeling altogether.

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It is akin to carrying that
tricolour with you in the cockpit

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and doing something that not only
you or your parents are proud of

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but the entire nation is proud of.

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(FIGHTER JET TAKES OFF)

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Me and my team, we
descended to ultra low levels

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and we had some
clouding at medium levels,

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some clouding at low levels and
we were all flying below the clouds.

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When it was just five minutes to go,

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we were quite concentrated
and very focused.

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I had two phones in my ears,

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one connected to GOC-15 corps,
other connected to GOC-16 corps.

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The time I mentioned 0105,

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that is the time when
people had to go.

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There is a procedure in the Army
where we synchronise our watches.

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Those watches had been
synchronised across all commands.

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So everybody had the
same time on their systems.

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At 0105, no orders were required.

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And like clockwork precision,

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the commencement of
Operation Sindoor started at 0105.

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My boys sprung into action

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and our guns started
thundering onto the targets.

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Then nothing stopped us
and we were no holds barred.

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We had multiple aerial assets

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launching from the same location

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and brought onto the target in
time and altitude as per the plan.

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A number of loiter
munition were fired

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and we were counting it,

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we were coordinating
it at a particular cycle.

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We hit them exactly
where we wanted to hit.

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I could hear DGMO
saying first hit, second hit,

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third hit, fourth hit and
everything he was just saying

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as if it was going
like a clock precision.

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Sitting in that ops room,

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we were all very aware
that we will execute it.

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We will execute these missions
with full safety to our people.

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That we will bring back
each and every aircraft

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and each and every pilot.

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So there was that rush
and there was excitement.

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We have engaged into
our final attack mode

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and we have continued
towards our target of Bahawalpur.

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That is the time I have
pressed the trigger

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and I saw the ammunition
flying into the air.

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Alongside my ammunition
there were other ammunitions

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that were going towards Bahawalpur.

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That is the time when we activated

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and then we went into
full-fledged war mode I would say.

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We had kept a code word,

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a code word wherein if you
have done a successful strike,

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you will say that code word.

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You actually heard
code words of everyone.

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So the moment you hear
everyone's code word,

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you know that everyone
struck Pakistan successfully.

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So having struck the targets
the way we were intending to,

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we were pretty confident that
we have achieved our objectives.

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It is the first time actually
we hit targets like Bahawalpur

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which was quite deep inside.

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We have done it very successfully,

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provided you know
evidence of our capabilities.

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So when I got this confirmation that
all missions have gone as planned,

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that was a good feeling in terms
of having 100% mission success.

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That is possibly one of my most
satisfying professional moments

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because every single target
was hit through the roof.

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That was the precision
that was achieved.

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It was a huge emotion which you know
was there, a sense of satisfaction.

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For that very fraction, it was
there in my heart and in my feeling.

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After the successful strike,

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we had achieved our
politico-military aim.

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Once we achieved that aim,

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obviously there was
satisfaction amongst all of us

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that we have done what we wanted.

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Once we hit them,

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there was a sense of justice,

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justice for the nation

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and the families
of the terror victims.

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We had decided the
objective of the operation

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as destruction of the enemy camps,

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particularly those who had been
responsible for the Pahalgam attack.

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That has been achieved.

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We had the intention
of conveying a message

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to the terrorists
and to their mentors.

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Even if it is anywhere in Pakistan,

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if the terrorists are hiding
there or finding shelter there,

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we will hit them.

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We wanted Pakistan Army to realize

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that this support to terrorism

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or inability to take effective
action against the terrorists

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is something which
is not tolerable to us.

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I quickly came outside.

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I gave a call to Harsh
and told him to tweet it.

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As I was about to upload the tweet,

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I realised that I would
be the first person

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to announce it to the world.

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Actually, we had tears in
our eyes when we saw that.

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And it meant more to me

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because I had received the
call from Himanshi that day.

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You cannot bring
those 26 people back.

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Those lives cannot
be the same again.

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There are deep
scars that it will carry.

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(EMOTIONAL MUSIC)

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Suddenly, from
watching history in action,

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I realised the enormity
of the task that lay ahead.

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The troops on the
ground had done their job.

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Now, the responsibility lay on us to
be able to showcase it to the world.

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The moment I got to my office,

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I wanted to check as to
how the world was reacting.

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I could see the comments
coming from all across

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that the Indian Army
tweeting justice is served

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means somebody's nightmare
is going to come true in Pakistan.

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By the time the first bombs went,

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within 15 minutes or so,

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we could see aircraft getting
airborne from the other side.

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They were painting on our radars.

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After hitting Muridke, we had
retaliation from the adversary side.

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We had different
counter-measuring systems.

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They were deployed.

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We have other beyond visual
range tactics that are carried out.

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I would say that they
were too slow to react.

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And all aircrafts had returned
after the mission successfully.

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Very soon, not only our live feeds

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which we captured as
these vectors hit the targets,

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but even our sources
across started sending videos

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from the vicinity of these targets.

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Pakistani social media

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and Pakistani people
actually acted as

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a source for battle
damage assessment.

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People were filming it
and they were running away

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or they were talking
very loudly about

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waha maardiya ye kar diya

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somebody saying markaz ko maar diya,

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all those bytes or
sounds you could hear.

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Pakistan always gets
away with murder lightly

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has been my stand and it
needed to be sent a message

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which was stronger than ever before.

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Our initial assessment was that we
had killed more than 100 terrorists.

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At least 6 to 10 of them
were high value targets

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which we had been wanting
to eliminate for a while.

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We have got a zero
tolerance for that.

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This isn't a game of kabaddi.

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That this is the line if you
cross that you are safe.

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You are not safe,

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wherever you are and
whatever time it takes

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and whatever sacrifice
and risk it takes,

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we will take the revenge.

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Maybe half an hour after the
targets had been completely engaged,

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we thought it prudent that we
will inform the Pakistan DGMO

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that we have engaged these targets.

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Because we have had an incident,

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we have hit the
perpetrators of terror.

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This is our concept
and this is our rationale.

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Should we want to discuss this,
we were open to doing that.

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We got a message
back from him saying that

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this communication should have been
done before we engaged the targets.

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And now the DGMOs will only speak
once the Pakistanis have responded.

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So we knew that things are not
yet over and we were prepared.

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We were ready to take on anything
whatever comes from their side.

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There was no time for me to absorb

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that this is what entire command
has been able to achieve.

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We had already switched into
dealing with the next situation

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and which was going
to be very intense.

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We were ready and our
fingers were on the trigger.

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The moment they started
on the line of control,

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we went at them hammer and tongs.

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Everywhere, all across, entire LoC,

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right from Tangdar, Kupwara, Uri,

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Rampur sector,
Poonch sector, Mendher,

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Rajouri, right up to Sundarbani
sector, the entire LC was activated.

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And I really wanted
each and every one of us,

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every soldier of mine,

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for one shot coming from Pakistan,
give him at least five back.

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For every sector, we were delivering
the fire in a manner it was planned.

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Each and every firing of my gun
is delivering a punitive assault.

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Now is the time, the people
who have supported the terror,

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they are the ones who
have to be targeted.

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And with that kind of a planning,

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we just took off.

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There was a duel happening
on the line of control

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and the rest, as
they say, is history.

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Within the next 15-20 minutes,

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I think there were at least

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40-50 aircrafts on
the air on both sides.

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We were holding guard in the air,

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making sure that none of their
aircraft would come this side.

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Even come to the range
where they could drop a weapon

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remaining on their side.

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And of course, we had
launched certain number of

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surface-to-air long-range
weapon systems,

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which we are sure caused
some losses on the other side.

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I think they didn't
want to come any closer

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and they decided
after a couple of hours

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that we will keep
our aircrafts down.

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Whilst all this was happening,

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the Maritime domain
was not sitting idle.

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We were putting a lot of pressure.

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We had insured that no Pakistani
military surveillance plane

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came anywhere near close
to this carrier battle group,

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because they knew that if they come,

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our integral air launched
from the aircraft carrier

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will take them down.

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The presence of
carrier battle group,

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ensured that the Pakistani forces
remain either in their harbors,

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or very close to their coast.

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All this while, we only
had a couple of hours

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to collate the entire evidence
and put it out for the world to see.

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A press conference was going
to be held early next morning.

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One by one, we started going through
the entire data from each feed.

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We were running against time,

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speed was of essence,

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but so was accuracy because the
credibility of India was at stake.

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The joint press briefing on the 7th

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by our Foreign Secretary
Vikram Misri

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Earlier this morning
as you would be aware,

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India exercised
its right to respond

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and preempt as well as deterred
more such cross border attacks.

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From the armed forces, we were
represented by two women officers.

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And it conveyed two
important messages

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that the women of
India will not be deterred

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by this cowardly kind of attacks,

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and the social and emotional fabric
of India will remain unaffected

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even by such kind of challenges.

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On the morning of 7th and 8th May,

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the Pakistanis conducted funerals
of some of the terrorist leaders.

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The Pakistani senior
military leadership

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also attended those funerals.

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So India said look here is the proof

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and the Pakistani state
and the army is protecting

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the terrorist leadership.

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As the midnight approached,

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the next two to three
hours was a gruelling battle.

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The artillery opened,

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the mortars opened,

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the infantry posts opened.

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Every life has a purpose and
what more beautiful purpose can be.

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When you're standing
there to deliver,

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the response of the Nation.

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We have earmarked certain posts,

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enemy posts for
punitive punishments.

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And I told the brigade commanders
take one EPPP target,

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one by one begin sorting them out.

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The procedure is so punitive

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that the enemy post is Degraded
good about 40 to 50 percent.

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After that, it cannot stand up.

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Because the pressure on
Park Post was so heavy,

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that in order to
relieve the pressure,

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he had to resort to
targeting my civilians,

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targeting the religious
infrastructure.

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Almost 500 villages
all along the L.C.

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were getting targeted.

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They hit Gurudwaras, temples.

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So it was really sad,

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that when we hit terror,

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they hit civilians.

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So you can well imagine,

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as to what are the ethics,

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that this army or
this country follows.

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I really wanted to get that
pressure off my civilians.

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I thereafter switched
my plan in a manner,

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that all these guns which are
targeting the civil population

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had to be silenced.

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I used to have my weapon
locating radar absolutely ready.

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Who is to be hunting for
these locations from where,

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he fired on to my gun position.

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They were ready and loaded.

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So before they
could shoot and scoot,

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these guns, they used
to fire on those guns.

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And we have caused immense
casualties to the Pakistanis

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at their own gun positions.

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When you are firing on the LoC., you
are like communicating through fire.

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Is he feeling the pressure or
he is not feeling the pressure?

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You come to know
through the intensity of fire.

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Sure enough within few hours,
we were able to control this fire.

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And he had to roll back his firing.

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Once anything starts,

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we are willing to go
as far as it is necessary

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for a nation to
preserve its sovereignty,

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and there's no limits on that.

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We fight till the last
drop of the blood.

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While the duels on the
line of control continued,

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the Pakistanis then also started
flying drones into Indian territory.

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Till 7th May,

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they had approximately 30
flights coming from 2 countries,

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which supported them openly.

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They were carrying the drones
and YIHA class of heavy drones,

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which they used against us.

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We were prepared for it.

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We eliminated everything
that they threw at us.

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You know the famous cliche,
Dil Mange More.

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I think the air defence
gunners were waiting for.

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Their impact of drones was
more of a nuisance value.

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Many of their kamikaze drones were
even taken on by our SAGW systems.

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We launched some specialised UAVs,

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which were basically targeting
their radar and SAM systems.

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These were the ones which
took out many of their radars

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and you know the weapon systems.

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Pasroor, Chunian, there was Lahore,

00:31:06.120 --> 00:31:08.360 align:center
Nayachor in the south-west,

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:11.640 align:center
and many such places
near Karachi, Malir, Cantt.

00:31:11.840 --> 00:31:13.720 align:center
So these were the places where

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certain number of
radar systems were there

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and we had targeted them.

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It is the air defence
systems of the Indian Army

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and the Indian Air Force that
worked together and in sync.

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9th evening, the US
Vice President J.D. Vance

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called Prime Minister Modi.

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He said that we have got
information and intelligence

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that Pakistan is going to launch
a massive attack on India tonight.

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So the Prime Minister said,
please tell them that our attack

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would be thrice the
intensity of their attack.

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Waha se goli, yaha se gola.

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We were informed that Pakistan
is planning to launch an operation,

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so-called Bunyal-al-Marsus,

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to teach India a lesson

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and that operation is going
to last for about 48 hours.

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I am not given to being very
impressed by either names

00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:32.000 align:center
that the Pakistan Army
may give to their operations

00:32:32.120 --> 00:32:34.080 align:center
or the dramatic manner
in which they do that.

00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.640 align:center
Rhetorics in war,
we don't take much.

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In any conflict situation,

00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:46.439 align:center
these brave words are said
with a certain objective in mind.

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That is to convince your own
people, to keep the brave face.

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You make these, very
high-sounding statements and others.

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We had red-teamed and
war-gamed various levels,

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and therefore we were
prepared at all times

00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:08.400 align:center
for it to continue to escalate
even to a full-blown war.

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From about around midnight,

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:14.080 align:center
they started launching aircraft
and they launched strikes

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from various places, from
Srinagar down to Bhuj.

00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:24.040 align:center
In various places, we had reports
of long-range weapons being fired.

00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:27.160 align:center
Though they sent a lot of missiles,

00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:29.560 align:center
neither their
intelligence was right.

00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:33.160 align:center
They were far away from
their, the, the intended targets.

00:33:37.320 --> 00:33:41.200 align:center
Only one odd missile fell anywhere
close to where it caused damage.

00:33:41.320 --> 00:33:42.760 align:center
One was at Udhampur,

00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.720 align:center
where it hit one of our
hospitals at the base.

00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:48.480 align:center
At about 1:30 or 1:45,

00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:53.240 align:center
one high-speed missile
was launched by Pakistan,

00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:54.400 align:center
aimed at Delhi,

00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.080 align:center
which was intercepted
at Sirsa in Haryana.

00:34:03.280 --> 00:34:08.400 align:center
That was the signal for India to
launch its final retaliatory attack.

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This is the time I
had given the orders

00:34:16.680 --> 00:34:19.719 align:center
to move all my long-range vectors

00:34:19.720 --> 00:34:22.200 align:center
and also the operational
reserves to their places.

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It was decided that India will not
go down to such kind of threats.

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We are going to respond
heavily on to Pakistan.

00:34:47.160 --> 00:34:51.160 align:center
And if there is an escalation to
this particular conflict, so be it.

00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:54.320 align:center
And this time, the full
responsibility was given

00:34:54.520 --> 00:34:59.240 align:center
to the Air Force to launch
the BrahMos cruise missiles

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.880 align:center
in four different waves.

00:35:01.720 --> 00:35:05.280 align:center
BrahMos is one of those which
has very high speed of attack.

00:35:07.720 --> 00:35:10.080 align:center
The chances of it getting
intercepted are less.

00:35:12.240 --> 00:35:13.960 align:center
The kind of damage it creates

00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:17.360 align:center
is much more than any
other smaller-speed weapon.

00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:23.080 align:center
And the best part was
it's a homegrown weapon,

00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:25.280 align:center
design and development
in India weapon.

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.800 align:center
So, they had selected 11
Pakistani airfields for the attacks.

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:44.960 align:center
So, we took a decision
that this is the time

00:35:45.080 --> 00:35:48.320 align:center
we need to now
enhance and up the ante.

00:36:25.600 --> 00:36:26.920 align:center
So, that night,

00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:28.600 align:center
that is 10th early morning,

00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:30.239 align:center
before they could strike,

00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:34.080 align:center
we have struck
their major airfields,

00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:36.640 align:center
radar sites, command
and control centres.

00:36:41.520 --> 00:36:45.200 align:center
So, we took out Rafiki, Sukkur,

00:36:46.520 --> 00:36:47.600 align:center
Rahim Yar Khan

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:50.360 align:center
and of course,
the Noor Khan Air Base.

00:36:55.880 --> 00:36:57.760 align:center
There is a fire in Noor Khan Base.

00:36:59.160 --> 00:37:01.280 align:center
There's been an attack on
Noor Khan base.

00:37:02.680 --> 00:37:04.199 align:center
And subsequently,
in the second wave,

00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:07.240 align:center
we launched strikes
against the main bases,

00:37:13.720 --> 00:37:18.120 align:center
Sargodha, Bholari and Jacobabad.

00:37:20.560 --> 00:37:23.240 align:center
And caused substantial
damage to all the three places.

00:37:25.520 --> 00:37:28.520 align:center
There was a lot of damage
that was caused to the runways,

00:37:31.640 --> 00:37:33.000 align:center
to the hangar

00:37:37.160 --> 00:37:40.320 align:center
and to the aircraft that
were parked on the ground.

00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:47.160 align:center
The intent was to keep it
calibrated, to keep it measured.

00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:50.160 align:center
And drive home a message that look,

00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:53.680 align:center
we can hit you at will and
you have no answer to it.

00:37:58.120 --> 00:38:01.560 align:center
We engaged him on a front
of almost 1200 kilometres,

00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.920 align:center
almost 200 kilometres
deep inside his territory.

00:38:08.120 --> 00:38:11.360 align:center
Things were really happening
the way we wanted them to happen.

00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:17.400 align:center
Whatever we were
touching was turning gold.

00:38:17.680 --> 00:38:19.720 align:center
All our weapons were
reaching the correct place.

00:38:27.520 --> 00:38:29.120 align:center
On the morning of 10th,

00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:30.759 align:center
after the second wave of attack,

00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:33.400 align:center
probably they got the message
that things are getting more serious

00:38:33.520 --> 00:38:38.640 align:center
and they had no response to the
kind of targeting that we are doing.

00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:44.600 align:center
I think Pakistan has realised,

00:38:45.240 --> 00:38:46.879 align:center
based on their information network

00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.320 align:center
which has been provided
to them by various countries,

00:38:49.640 --> 00:38:52.720 align:center
That there could
be a strike from sea,

00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:54.720 align:center
which will be very damaging.

00:38:55.080 --> 00:38:57.160 align:center
So when they realised, now
Navy is also going to attack

00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:59.960 align:center
and Brahmos have also been
lined up along with the artillery,

00:39:00.080 --> 00:39:02.519 align:center
they knew now next night is
going to be a very dangerous one,

00:39:02.520 --> 00:39:04.560 align:center
along with the Air Force,
what it had already done.

00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:11.080 align:center
By 8 o'clock in the morning on 10th,

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:14.720 align:center
the Pakistanis were
desperately trying to reach

00:39:14.840 --> 00:39:16.800 align:center
the Indian establishment

00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:20.360 align:center
and Asim Munir was
trying to reach Marco Rubio,

00:39:20.640 --> 00:39:23.120 align:center
who in turn called
External Affairs Minister

00:39:23.240 --> 00:39:24.720 align:center
at 10 in the morning apparently,

00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:27.520 align:center
saying the Pakistanis want to stop,

00:39:27.680 --> 00:39:29.200 align:center
they want to have a ceasefire.

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.160 align:center
So, Jai Shankar's
message was that we will not

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:35.200 align:center
accept any mediation from anyone.

00:39:35.680 --> 00:39:38.480 align:center
So, the message given
to Marco Rubio was that

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:43.079 align:center
please ask the Pakistani Director
General of Military Operations

00:39:43.080 --> 00:39:44.959 align:center
to call Indian DGMO,

00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.840 align:center
which is the only acceptable
channel of communication.

00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:53.280 align:center
Approximately at about 9 o'clock
or thereabouts in the morning,

00:39:53.680 --> 00:39:57.120 align:center
I got a message from
the Pakistan DGMO.

00:39:57.440 --> 00:40:02.360 align:center
The message said that the Pakistan
DGMO wanted to communicate with me,

00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:04.080 align:center
his Indian counterpart.

00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:07.440 align:center
And eventually, it was decided

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:11.640 align:center
that we would speak to them
at some time during the day,

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.800 align:center
maybe 2 hours after we
received the message.

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.880 align:center
I got a call from the
Ministry of External Affairs,

00:40:20.080 --> 00:40:24.560 align:center
informing us that the Pakistanis
were frantically trying to call,

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:26.560 align:center
but nobody is answering.

00:40:32.120 --> 00:40:34.720 align:center
Murphy's Law also played a role,

00:40:36.120 --> 00:40:38.400 align:center
that there was a little
snag in the hotline.

00:40:39.240 --> 00:40:40.960 align:center
We got the line rectified,

00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:43.480 align:center
that maybe took an hour or so.

00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:46.800 align:center
And by then, we had
taken the decision

00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:51.920 align:center
that there was no harm in hearing
what the Pakistan DGMO had to say.

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And I eventually spoke to
him at 3:30 in the afternoon.

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Usually, the person
that asks for the call

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is the one that speaks first.

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So, General Kasif Abdullah,
the Pakistan DGMO, started.

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As per that tradition,

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he referred to me as Sir, because
the seniority is well established.

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But it didn't take him much time

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to cut straight to the fact
that they wanted a ceasefire.

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In fact, he suggested to me that,

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Sir, having hit so many
Brahmos missiles at us,

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you should now be satisfied,
and we can bring this to a stop.

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So once they asked, and
they repeatedly asked us

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that, you've caused enough damage,

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please call for a ceasefire.

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We conceded to that request.

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We were also very clear that
is we don't have to linger it on.

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We spoke at 3.30, and the
conversation must have lasted

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a little less than half an hour.

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And we both agreed that
starting 5.30 in the evening,

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we would cease hostilities.

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It was agreed between them

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that both sides
would stop all firing

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and military actions on
land and in the air and sea.

00:42:17.520 --> 00:42:21.600 align:center
Well, it's an uneasy
cessation of hostilities.

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I don't refer to it
as ceasefire at all.

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And until and unless we
get a complete assurance

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that there is no support

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or perpetration of terror acts
from across the line of control

00:42:35.080 --> 00:42:36.480 align:center
or the international boundary,

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which we can clearly
attribute to Pakistan,

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Operation Sindoor will continue.

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Message to the world is very clear.

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India's generosity or
India's, being more tolerant

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should not be mistaken
for its weakness.

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India can take risks.

00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:01.440 align:center
India can hit hard irrespective
of the consequences.

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Operation Sindoor
has drawn a new line

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in the fight against terrorism.

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A new normal has been established.

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Firstly, if there is a
terrorist attack on India,

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a strong response will be delivered.

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We will go to all those places
and carry out tough operations

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from where the roots of terror grow.

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Secondly,

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any nuclear blackmail will
not be tolerated by India.

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Thirdly,

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Governments supporting terrorism and

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the masterminds behind
it will be treated as one.

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At the strategic level, I think,

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when to stop a conflict
is equally important.

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It's easy to start a war.

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It's very difficult to stop it.

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When the ceasefire was announced,

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for me and for all of us, there
was a sense of achievement.

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Long Live Mother India.

00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:37.400 align:center
Each and every sailor,

00:44:38.560 --> 00:44:39.960 align:center
each and every airman,

00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:44.240 align:center
Long Live Mother India.

00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:49.520 align:center
and each and every soldier,

00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:51.880 align:center
they worked with huge commitment.

00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:58.880 align:center
We are ready to sacrifice, go to
any level to protect our people.

00:45:00.680 --> 00:45:05.080 align:center
It is the youngsters in the field
who have really done the job.

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A large number of Indian
operations room have one saying

00:45:11.080 --> 00:45:12.720 align:center
plastered in the centre everywhere.

00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:14.520 align:center
It says "war in my time".

00:45:17.040 --> 00:45:20.440 align:center
And it was war then in my time.

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I never understood the gravity
of what those words mean.

00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:29.720 align:center
I only want to assure our countrymen

00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:33.640 align:center
that the Indian army,
the Indian armed forces,

00:45:34.200 --> 00:45:39.400 align:center
we will always be there for
the nation when it needs us.

00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.840 align:center
No conflict in future
will be like the past one.

00:45:48.120 --> 00:45:49.360 align:center
We need to prepare for it.

00:45:55.080 --> 00:45:56.560 align:center
This is the new normal.

00:45:59.520 --> 00:46:04.120 align:center
A notice to sail should be
construted as a notice to combat.

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We are a peace loving country.

00:46:10.680 --> 00:46:12.040 align:center
We would like to live and let live.

00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:16.360 align:center
But if Pakistan carries out
any terror attack of this kind,

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I can assure

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that Pakistan will have to pay
twice what they have paid this time.

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The kind of beating they
got during Op Sindoor,

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I think they will
remember it for a long time.

00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:40.960 align:center
It was just a trailer.

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When the Prime Minister says
that the Operation Sindoor is alive,

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his intention is the
fight against terror

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will only be over till the
last terrorist is eliminated.

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