National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Friday delivered a sharp rebuke to the foreign media’s reporting on Operation Sindoor, challenging it to produce any credible evidence of damage on the Indian side.
Speaking at the 62nd convocation of IIT Madras, Doval praised the Indian armed forces for carrying out precision strikes on terror infrastructure inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in under 23 minutes.
Doval said satellite imagery provided clear proof of what happened between May 6 and May 10, yet foreign outlets continued to claim there was damage on the Indian side — without being able to produce a single image, not even of a broken window.
“Foreign press said that Pakistan did this and that. You show me one photograph, one image, which shows any damage done to any Indian structure — even a glass pane being broken,” Doval stressed.
“These satellite images are available all over the world. They (The New York Times and others) brought out images and published them. The images only showed that 13 airbases in Pakistan before and after May 10 were destroyed, whether in Sargodha, Rahim Yar Khan or Chaklala,” he said.
“I am only telling you what the foreign media put out on the basis of imagery — where is the damage? We are capable of doing that (destroying terror bases and inflicting damage on Pakistani airbases),” Doval added.
Indian security forces launched Operation Sindoor in the intervening night of May 6–7, decimating nine terror camps, including the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen, inside Pakistan as well as in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The strikes were carried out in retaliation for the deadly terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, in which Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed 26 civilians.
—IANS