Pahalgam terrorist attack, India launched Operation Sindoor in retaliation, targeting terrorist hideouts in Pakistan. In the ensuing conflict, both nations exchanged strikes, including drone and missile attacks.

In his first address to the nation since Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (May 12) declared that the military response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack, in which the armed forces struck on terror infrastructure inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killed more than 100 terrorists on May 7,