If Terrorists Are Hiding In Pakistan….: EAM Jaishankars Fresh Warning Amid Operation Sindoor Pause

Amsterdam: Outlining India’s strategy to counter-terrorism, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned that Operation Sindoor is constant as India will reply if there may be every other terror assault like the only at Pahalgam and goal terrorists if they’re working from Pakistan.

In an interview with Netherlands-based NOS, Jaishankar mentioned that India hit terror websites named within the listing launched through the United Nations. He famous that the UN Security Council often releases a listing, which mentions main points referring to main terrorists and their position of place of abode and the place they perform from.

When requested whether or not the operation is constant, Jaishankar spoke back, “The operation continues because there is a clear message in that operation, that if there are acts of the kind we saw on April 22nd, there will be response, we will hit the terrorists. If the terrorists are in Pakistan, we will hit them where they are. So, there is a message in continuing the operation. But, continuing the operation is not the same as firing on each other. Right now, there is agreed cessation of firing and military action.”

The External Affairs Minister recalled that 26 vacationers had been murdered in entrance in their households after ascertaining their religion in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22. He mentioned that the assault was once aimed toward harming tourism, which is the mainstay of Kashmir’s financial system, and growing non secular discord.

On the terrorist assault in Pahalgam, Jaishankar mentioned, “We had the recent fighting between India and Pakistan. First of all, you got to understand what it was about, it started because it was triggered by very barbaric terrorist attack in the Indian Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, where 26 tourists were murdered in front of their families after asertaining their faith and it was done in a way, in which it was intended to harm tourism which is the mainstay of Kashmir’s economy and to create religious discord. Deliberately an element of religion was introduced and to understand that, you got to also see on the Pakistani side, you have a Pakistani leadership, especially their army chief, who is very driven by extreme religious outlook that the way. So, there is clearly some connect between the views that were expressed and the behaviour that was done.”

Jaishankar mentioned that The Resistance Front (TRF), a bunch created through Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has taken accountability for the terrorist assault in Pahalgam. He mentioned that India has known the attackers and they’re related to LeT. He recalled how India had knowledgeable the UN Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee about TRF in 2023, 2024 and 2024. He even confirmed the UN listing to the journalist all through the interview.

When requested whether or not India was once ready to catch terrorists who murdered vacationers, Jaishankar spoke back, “I think we were able to identify who they were, because there were pictures of them. The attack, there was a body called The Resistance Front which took responsibility for the attack and that’s a body which has been on our radar for a number of years. In 2023, 2024 and 2025, we brought this body to the attention to the UN Security Council’s 1267 sanctions committee and we said look we see this as a body created by the Lashkar. Lashkar is the main terrorist group in Pakistan, one of the two main terrorist groups and we can see the connection. Well before the April 22nd attack, we had already drawn this to the attention of the United Nations.”

“We identified the people, the attackers, we know they are linked to Lashkar. We know the command centres of terrorist groups, its not a secret. If you look at UN Security Council, UN Security Council publishes regularly a kind of list of major terrorists, it looks something like this. It says the list established and maintained pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 1267 whatever, now if you go through this list, these very places…these are well-known, notorious terrorists, they have a place of residence, it says they operate out of here. I mean there is a whole list of these guys. Now, these are the very places which are named in this and these are the places we hit on the 7th of May,” he added.

Speaking to NOS, Jaishankar reiterated that India and Pakistan bilaterally agreed for cessation of firing on May 10 after Indian moves “compelled the Pakistani military to accept that we need to stop firing at each other.” He discussed India centered Pakistan’s 8 airbases, making them non-functional.

He mentioned, “What happened was, after the terrorists struck, it was imperative that we have a response because lack of response you understand was impossible in such a situation.” When a journalist requested, “It has been tried in the past, not to respond.”

In his reaction, Jaishankar mentioned, “And we have seen the results. So, our government has been very clear. Okay, I accept that may not be the policy of the earlier government. But, our government is very clear, if there is such an attack, there will be response. The response was there, the response targeted these nine places, where the terrorist centres, as I said, they are all, the places are all shown in the UN list, I mean this is where the terrorists work and live and operate from. After that, the Pakistani military chose to fire on us and we responded, this went on four days and after that, the decisive day was the 10th of May.”

“On the morning of 10th May, in response to an attack which they had launched on us earlier that morning, we had hit eight airbases. We basically made these bases non-functional, you know, we hit their runways, we hit their command centres. This is the kind of, you hit a runway, you make the airbase non-operational or you went after what is a air-defence command control system, this is the airbase close to Rawalpindi. That I think compelled the Pakistani military to accept that we need to stop firing at each other. At the moment, there is no firing and there has been some repositioning of forces accordingly,” he mentioned.

In reaction to the Pahalgam assault, Indian Armed Forces introduced Operation Sindoor within the early hours of May 7, focused on 9 terror websites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), resulting in the loss of life of over 100 terrorists affiliated with terror outfits just like the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM).

Following the assault, Pakistan retaliated with cross-border shelling around the Line of Control and Jammu and Kashmir in addition to tried drone assaults alongside the border areas, following which India introduced a coordinated assault and broken radar infrastructure, communique centres and airfields throughout airbases in Pakistan. On May 10, India and Pakistan reached an figuring out at the cessation of hostilities.