‘Action was overdue’: Captain Amarinder Singh hails strike on terror camps under Operation Sindoor

A former Army officer himself, Amarinder congratulated the Indian defence forces “for exercising utmost restraint by specifically targeting the terror camps” and “not targeting civilian or military installations.”

“India does not want any escalation. The country had made it categorically clear that it will not let those responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack go unpunished. They have been punished as admitted by the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist who, though he escaped himself, lost several members of his family,” Amarinder said.

“Our target was the terrorist training camps, and we have hit them hard and that is it,” he stated.

Warning Pakistan against trying to escalate the conflict “lest it lead to its own doom”, he condemned its attack which resulted in the death of several people in the border town of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.

At least 10 civilians were killed and 40 were injured, mostly in Jammu’s Poonch sector, as Pakistani troops resorted to heavy shelling across the Line of Control in response to Operation Sindoor, official sources said earlier. After the shelling, many families in Poonch started fleeing toward Jammu, seeking safety.

Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Mann took to X and said that the country is united in the fight against terrorism, “We are proud of our Indian Army and our brave soldiers. 140 crore countrymen are standing with the Indian Army. The people of Punjab stand with the country’s army for the courage and enthusiasm of the soldiers.”

Operation Sindoor was executed two weeks after the terror attack in Baisaran meadow in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22.