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India's Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and Pakistan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Sahir Shamshad Mirza exchanged sharp warnings at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. They also outlined national red lines, as both sides navigated heightened diplomatic tensions and strategic shifts following last month’s brief.
The longstanding tensions between the two neighbours grabbed attention at the gathering of the top global defence forum held from Friday to Sunday, PTI reported, quoting Channel News Asia on Sunday.
CDS General Anil Chauhan, speaking at the event, in reference to Operation Sindoor, said, "What India has done, politically, they have drawn a new red line of intolerance against terror."
"I hope this particular operation, it is basically lying in the military domain, that should bring about some lessons for our adversary also, and hopefully they learn that this is a limit of India's tolerance," Anil Chauhan said as quoted by PTI.
The Chief of Defence Staff said, "We have been subjected to this proxy war of terror for almost two decades and more, and we lost a lot of people. We want to put an end to it."
Operation Sindoor was launched early on May 7 to destroy nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to avenge the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 people dead. The four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan ended with an understanding to stop the military actions on May 10.
What Pakistan General Said
Pakistan's General Sahir Shamsad Mirza, in his address, stressed the need to move towards conflict resolution instead of management, stating that its absence could result in escalation.
"The strategic stability with the lowering of this threshold to the dangerous levels if next time such a conflict occurs and the cities are targeted first, and the borders become irrelevant... there could be a possibility that before the international community intervenes because of the restricted or constricted times window, the damage and destruction may have already taken place," he said at the event, as reported by PTI.
Notably, both sides have moved from weapons to words, with India dispatching several delegations to visit more than 30 capitals across the world, a similar effort by Pakistan is to set to start from today (June 2).
