A month after Operation Sindoor and the resulting military escalation between India and Pakistan, the Deputy Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh Friday said that 81 per cent of military hardware that the Pakistani Army receives is of Chinese origin.
In a video released by news agency PTI, Lieutenant General is heard saying: “Few lessons that I thought I must flag as far as ‘Operation Sindoor’ is concerned. Firstly, one border, two adversaries. Pakistan was a front face. We had China providing all possible support, and it’s no surprise because if you were to look at statistics, in the last five years, 81 per cent of the military hardware that Pakistan is getting is all Chinese. So, it’s no surprise”
He added, “China perhaps has seen that it’s able to test its weapons against various other weapon systems that are there. It’s like a live lab which is available to it.”
VIDEO | Delhi: Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance) says, “Few lessons that I thought I must flag as far as ‘Operation Sindoor’ is concerned. Firstly, one border, two adversaries. Pakistan was a front face. We had… pic.twitter.com/n4qM1wbCkB
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The four-night military confrontation between India and Pakistan that began early on May 7 was the most expansive outbreak of hostilities since the war of 1971. As part of Operation Sindoor, nine terrorist camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan were targeted and successfully destroyed, the government had said in a press briefing.
Operation Sindoor was a response to the terrorist attack on April 22 in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam which had claimed the lives of 26 civilians. The strike were carried out between 1.05 am and 1.30 am “to deliver justice to the victims of terror attack and their families,” the government had said.
