Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

[Vayutuvan]

The US and USSR were launch on warning precisely because of huge number of warheads, unreliable accuracy of missiles which meant that they did not have a reasonable guarantee that their second strike would survive or someone will be around to do it.

Don't SLBMs coupled with Nuc subs guarantee the success of second strikes?

[Amber G.]

Pakistani accounts are peddling old and doctored videos to claim that Indian fighter jets were shot down after Operation Sindhoor. ..

Great job by Firstpost.
(Video exposing. some few popular fake pictures / videos )

[ChanakyaM]

Effectiveness of this attack seems very low even from material or strategic point of view. Its like sending Virat Kohli to defeat a bunch of galli cricketers. God knows when we will have the guts to take down their military assets. Defence Minister going gung ho about this on SM seems theatric. We need to be cold and ruthless and keep hitting them and carry on with our business as usual. No theatrics needed just revenge with cold blood the way bheem did to dushhyasan. Let's not forget they traumatised our women and children in pahalgham. We need to yellow their leaders pants

Not sure what kind of statement this is. Its a resounding success and they are sh***ing in their pants you just cant see it.

[Anujan]

All the US think tank scenarios about Indian retaliation went for a toss by targeting the terrorists camps.

Wasnt a famous analyst known well here telling everyone that there will be no retaliation because India did previous attacks to avenge soldiers and this attack was on civilians?

In other news, Pakistani social media is all like

Blood thirsty Modi has killed innocent civilians!! For every Mujahid you killed, two will take their place to continue their Jihad!!

I think I have stumbled upon a bit of piskology here. We keep wondering why western media parrots Pakistani positions, and why Pakistanis are so convincing. It is because Pakistanis really truly believe that they were peacefully doing terrorism and India unfairly attacked the Jihadis who were peacefully planning their next attack. So anything Pakistanis say about lack of evidence, peaceful population etc sound really convincing. They believe it themselves

[ShauryaT]

All the US think tank scenarios about Indian retaliation went for a toss by targeting the terrorists camps.

Yeah, C. Fair did it crow and admitted she was wrong.

[A_Gupta]

Question to think about - don't answer here please, just think about it:

Does India want Pakistan to give a "kinetic" response, so that the military continues to be engaged?
Or does India want Pakistan to give a half-hearted riposte to have sufficient propaganda for their aam abdul, but to back down from any real military engagement?

Indian leadership has some idea, we need not know which one it is.

How does India "guide" Pakistan into making the choice that India wants? And in that case, how important is it that every Indian and India-supporter amplifies the official government line on everything?

[Aditya_V]

Effectiveness of this attack seems very low even from material or strategic point of view. Its like sending Virat Kohli to defeat a bunch of galli cricketers. God knows when we will have the guts to take down their military assets. Defence Minister going gung ho about this on SM seems theatric. We need to be cold and ruthless and keep hitting them and carry on with our business as usual. No theatrics needed just revenge with cold blood the way bheem did to dushhyasan. Let's not forget they traumatised our women and children in pahalgham. We need to yellow their leaders pants

Not sure what kind of statement this is. Its a resounding success and they are sh***ing in their pants you just cant see it.

+1,

Pakistan most secure Terror Assets which the Pakistan Miltary has been claiming for 3 decades cannot be touched have been taken out with PAF, PA air defences amounting to zilch.

Paki and Paki Handles, western supporters are left claiming mythical IAF aircraft shoot downs and attacking Civilians in Poonch (Which must be avenged) with Artillery.

BTW last time Operation Bandar was on the morning of 26 Feb 19 and Operation Swift Retreat was at around 9:15-9:30 India Time, Expect something today morning.

[rsharma]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flO5EGSgNeQ

Just re-upping this old classic!
Plijj to re-share liberally with clueless dolts and Westoids/Ypipo who gobble up Paki propagandu as if it were Hot Fudge Sundae.

[Ardeshir]

Gurus, posting this to hint at possible Chicom involvement in this whole Rafale story that the Bakis are trying to push:

I am not claiming anything about rafale but the image being shared is completely fake (1/2)

It's shows repeating patters means cloning is used

Inconsistent brightness in ELA

Abrupt lighting changes in luminance gradient

This is not level of editing, is involved

https://x.com/spadex_716i/status/1920166112097907023

[Prem Kumar]

People trust the Indian Govt & the Armed Forces

Hence its important for them to have periodic pressers, say once a day. Present the Official Indian POV. Explain what's happening in Poonch (Pakis killing civilians), estimates of the # of casualties in retaliatory firing by us, dispelling myths about aircrafts being downed etc

Will be better if they allow brief Q&A

This will help the lakhs of internet warriors on X who are fighting state-sponsored propaganda on the other hand, with scanty info from their own side

This is one lesson from Balakot that must be implemented

[Dilbu]

Complete secrecy and silence work to your advantage only in the planning phase. Once things go kinetic, managing the media narrative is an important aspect of being in control. Keeping your own media and people in complete darkness while the other side is running amok with wild claims can be damaging at some point. Even a delayed drip feed of sanitized info is better than total silence.

[Cain Marko]

People trust the Indian Govt & the Armed Forces

Hence its important for them to have periodic pressers, say once a day. Present the Official Indian POV. Explain what's happening in Poonch (Pakis killing civilians), estimates of the # of casualties in retaliatory firing by us, dispelling myths about aircrafts being downed etc

Will be better if they allow brief Q&A

This will help the lakhs of internet warriors on X who are fighting state-sponsored propaganda on the other hand, with scanty info from their own side

This is one lesson from Balakot that must be implemented

Managing the media narrative is extremely important.. It is the only way to expose the true face of the tspa. If not, the game will continue and the hard work done over the past few days is jeopardized.

I just saw a program held by yalda hakim who is an excellent friend of India, interviewing the Pakistani high commissioner in UK. A bjp spokesperson was online for a few minutes, the man was aggressive, loud mouthed and totally gave the advantage to the Pakistani official, an advantage that yalda had been painstakingly cultivating for some time. The man could have easily pointed to trf as evidence of Pakistan involvement, he could've easily pointed to the throat slit gesture from the high commissioners office. But no, he came gave a pompous angry lecture and went away.

GOI has to manage PR a while lot better than this. Stop sending rank amateurs to media events, they do more damage than help. Jeez. I remember it was the same shit they did post balakote. Tsp ran amuck and scot free!

[williams]

Official release can and should happen only every 12 - 24 hours. Unofficial handles are there plenty but enemy has that too. We can choose whichever handles we like is the point. You cannot control the enemies handle if someone choose to do so. BTW GoI did try to ban a lot of these handles within India. They cannot do much if things go bad beyond their jurisdiction.

[williams]

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/ ... -07-989069

Here is our version of the news that we can choose to believe.

[Prem Kumar]

Unfortunately, this is not Modi Sarkar's strong suit. He hates the Congress dominated media & distrusts it. So, he has shut himself & the Govt off from them. Neither punishing/reforming them nor controlling them

This is not helping

There are enough nationalistic channels now & even the disgraceful ones are sensing the public mood and uniting behind the nation. Its a self-goal to keep everyone in the dark

Just like "once in 5 years Op Sindoor style strikes" won't do anymore, we cannot just stop with 1 meticulously organized press release (which was brilliant by the way). We need proactive info management

Otherwise, sooner or later, the press & people will make up stuff or (worse) believe Paki lies

[williams]

https://aninews.in/news/national/genera ... 08081928/

Official report on Paki cheese fire violation in the last 24 hours.

[Amber G.]

Meanwhile there are rumors (fairly strong) that Trump might give India a sweetheart deal on tariffs (and claim the credit to stop the war with Pakistan0,,,

Anyway From trump on truth social:

News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office, concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF MANY!!!"

[Deans]

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Indranil confirm that the picture is of the Brahmos booster as discussed in the above post.
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/19201 ... 1kN6w&s=19

I don't want to join this misinformation slugfest.

People like these don't understand how an integrated solid fuel booster missile like Brahmos works.

The black parts are marked as 5,6 and 7 in the schematic below. It must be jettisoned for the ramjet to start and operate.

Jaidev Jamwal had posted on linkedin that the Brahmos pic had its origins in a Chinese handle. ISI has apparently used Chinese and other
handles to flood the interne with various fake pics.

[Amber G.]

^^^ Chinese are crazy .. for example see this on their SM https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GqYzv6hXEAA ... name=large

Meanwhile from Geo News:


Pakistani Media reports now saying Pakistan has suspended flights from Karachi, Lahore, Sialkot

[Dilbu]

Based on the theory that there is no smoke without fire and considering all the noise from SM in the last 8 hours, looks like there is an exchange of drone attacks in Punjab sector. There is some noise from Amritsar on this side and Lahore on other side.

[williams]

Blasts heard in Lahore the day after operation Sindoor - smoke seen in few places. - media reporting.

More reports Lahore airport under attack.

One paki Abdul is claiming it was a missile.

[fanne]

something is going one - something extra ordinary...drone/planes/chees fire ullandhan take your pick. It is not silent and it is relentless. It i like phase 1,then 1.1, 1.11, 1.2 ....too many small engagements before phase 2.

[vimal]

Meanwhile there are rumors (fairly strong) that Trump might give India a sweetheart deal on tariffs (and claim the credit to stop the war with Pakistan0,,,

Anyway From trump on truth social:

News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office, concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF MANY!!!"

This dude will not pass my English teachers exam.
The deal is rumored to be with UK. Although why would anyone call UK A BIG country.

[S_Madhukar]

I hope we don’t just hunker down on arty violations… poor border citizens suffer… a couple of mijjiles can silence the arty too…

[williams]

Blast in Lahore: A powerful explosion was reported on Walton Road in Lahore early Thursday morning, sending shockwaves through the city as tensions continue to escalate following India’s 100% precision strikes under Operation Sindoor destroying nine key terror hubs of JeM, Lashkar, and Hizbul Mujahideen within the territories of Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Both Lahore and Karachi Airport are reported to have shut its operations. _ Republic

[williams]

The series of explosions in Lahore comes a day after India struck terror camps in Pakistan, in an operation named 'Sindoor', in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. - India today

[Cain Marko]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZaSNRxtp8

This interview by Fmr Ambassador to France, Javed Ashraf is so much better. We need to put the foreign service mandarins on duty as PR teams to handle PR.

[Amber G.]

Earlier posted - Pakistani media is now reporting of "loud sounds" of blasts in eastern city of Lahore bordering India.

[williams]

Earlier posted - Pakistani media is now reporting of "loud sounds" of blasts in eastern city of Lahore bordering India.

Bomb disposal squad is arriving - possibility local paki terrorist attack. AoA

[Vayutuvan]

The series of explosions in Lahore comes a day after India struck terror camps in Pakistan, in an operation named 'Sindoor', in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. - India today

So they are blowing themselves up and claim that India bombed them and then escalate?!

[williams]

The series of explosions in Lahore comes a day after India struck terror camps in Pakistan, in an operation named 'Sindoor', in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. - India today

So they are blowing themselves and claim that India bombed. Then escalate?!

Yes one media report is claiming it is self inflicted Pakis are amazing. Looks like they have closed all airports now.

[nishant.gupta]

This dude will not pass my English teachers exam.
The deal is rumored to be with UK. Although why would anyone call UK A BIG country.

OR "Highly respected" either. I dont think even Americans think of UK as respected any more.

[Anujan]

Apparently muridke was attacked by UAV as part of op sindoor

Does this mean .... There's a national bird of Pakistan (SDRE version) now?

[g.sarkar]

https://www.firstpost.com/world/pakista ... 86528.html
Pakistan: Loud explosions in Lahore, local media reports panic among people
FP News Desk • May 8, 2025
A series of loud explosions were heard on Walton Road in Lahore on Thursday morning, sending the city into high alert. According to Pakistani news outlet Samaa TV, police officials said multiple blasts were heard on Walton Road in the Gopal Nagar and Naseerabad areas of Lahore, and some of them were near the Walton Airport.
......
Gautam
Explosions in LaWhore airport is being reported in many sources, but without details.
Added later: Now Pakis are claiming that India attacked with 4 missiles and drones.

[Amber G.]

I think Iran FM is in Delhi (on a pre scheduled visit)...

[RCase]

^^^
Dronacharya was a sanatani!

[Dilbu]

Short, brown, long on the tip, very conscious of the mileage per hour in air, neembu - chilli hanging from its tail and typically covers or shivers before delivering its payload.

[RCase]

I think India missed out doing a follow on strike on the janaza of the un-uniformed jihadis. Would have wiped out the uniformed ones also. That would instill more fear amongst the jihadis.

[vimal]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZaSNRxtp8

This interview by Fmr Ambassador to France, Javed Ashraf is so much better. We need to put the foreign service mandarins on duty as PR teams to handle PR.

France 24 is rabidly anti-India channel. They host a number of anti India reporters and constantly peddle anti-India news.
The anchor interrupted Indian ambassador mid way and then asked if India should have been better nation and found a peaceful solution instead of the problem. WTF, France attacked Iraq and Afghanistan without ever being attacked by any of those nations. French government must held to a red line by India. I searched their channel for pahalgam attack and found just 3 tiny videos with no details about the attack. But they have a 4 minute long video of Paki minister talking about tensions with India. Seems like Frenchies are completely infiltrated by pakis and jihadis. No wonder they are going to shit.

[williams]

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/ind ... 025-05-07/
India dismisses report of Pakistan downing jets as "disinformation"