General Upendra Dwivedi Reveals Operation Sindoor Did Not End on May 10

6 September-Kolkata, India: According to the Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi, Operation Sindoor “continued for a long time” rather than ending on May 10, as the United States pressured India and Pakistan to sign a truce.

At a book launch in Delhi, General Dwivedi said, “You may think that the war finished on May 10; no, because it continued for a long time, with many decisions still to be taken.”Beyond that, of course, I will find it difficult to share here.”

The Indian Army launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, after a terrorist attack that killed 27 Indian civilians in the Pahalgam district of Kashmir on April 22. In this operation, the forces targeted multiple terrorist camps in Pakistan and across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and the Indian government described this operation as a “focused, measured, and non-escalatory operation.”

‘Like a wave of rhythm’

General Dwivedi praised the Indian army and also shared details that during the operation, there was “something like a rhythmic wave” which moved between the Indian armed forces and also the officials.

He said “When I say rhythmic wave, in these 88 hours, it was not possible for you to come for the planning, pass the orders… so, everybody was synergised, and everybody knew his orders.”

The army chief further added, “When I say rhythmic wave, in these 88 hours, you could not come for the planning or pass the orders… so, everyone synergised, and everyone knew his orders.”

Indian army played chess with Pakistan

Last month, General Dwivedi shared details of the planning and execution of Operation Sindoor, saying it was a strategic “chess game”.

He said the operation happened in a “grey zone,” which is unpredictable and just short of a full-scale conventional military conflict, and compared it to a game of chess.

The army chief further added that “In Op Sindoor, what we did, we played chess… What does it mean! It means that we did not know what step the enemy was going to take and what we were going to do. It was a gray zone. The gray zone is that we are not going for the conventional operations but we are doing something which is just short of the conventional operations.”

The three military chiefs and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh determined that they required immediate action and began planning on April 23.