Jun 22, 2025 06:10 AM IST

Singh led the armed forces’ yoga day celebrations, with round 2,500 troopers collaborating within the Northern Command occasion.

NEW DELHI: Operation Sindoor is the pure development of the 2016 surgical strikes and the 2019 Balakot airstrikes in Pakistan, and it was performed in a way that compelled Islamabad to ask for a ceasefire, defence minister Rajnath Singh mentioned on Saturday, articulating India’s agency resolve to battle terrorism.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh performs yoga on the eleventh International Day of Yoga, at Northern Command Headquarters in Udhampur on Saturday. (ANI Photo)

“It was executed in such a means that Pakistan requested for a ceasefire, and solely then have we put a pause to the operation. As I’ve mentioned earlier, Operation Sindoor shouldn’t be over but. India is absolutely ready to take all types of motion in opposition to terrorism,” Singh mentioned at an International Yoga Day operate organised by the military in Udhampur.

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The military’s Northern Command based mostly in Udhampur is the nerve centre of counterterrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir.

India launched the operation within the early hours of May 7 and struck terror and army installations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) following the Pahalgam terror strike by which 26 individuals have been shot lifeless. It triggered a four-day army confrontation with Pakistan involving fighter jets, missiles, drones, long-range weapons and heavy artillery earlier than the 2 sides reached an understanding on stopping all army motion on May 10.

Singh led the armed forces’ yoga day celebrations, with round 2,500 troopers collaborating within the Northern Command occasion. Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi and Northern Army commander Lieutenant General Pratik Sharma have been current.

“Yoga offers readability to the individuals in chaos. It is an artwork, a science, a philosophy, and spirituality. Those who apply yoga of their day by day lives have management over their physique and thoughts. It makes us proactive, not reactive,” he mentioned in his tackle, describing Operation Sindoor as a shining instance of that “management.”

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The Indian armed forces confirmed restraint, stability and precision throughout the operation, which is a mirrored image of their inside energy attained by working towards yoga, he mentioned. The operation was a transparent message to Pakistan that it’ll face the results for supporting terror actions in opposition to India, he mentioned.

Pakistan needs to weaken India from inside, nevertheless it ought to always remember that identical to Major Somnath Sharma, Brigadier Mohammad Usman too sacrificed his life for the unity and integrity of the nation, Singh mentioned referring to the bravehearts who fought valiantly throughout the 1947-48 India-Pakistan struggle. Sharma and Usman have been posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra and the Maha Vir Chakra, respectively — the nation’s highest and second highest wartime honours.