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Informist, Sunday, May 11, 2025

--Military officer: Often ceasefire agreements take time to fructify on ground 
--Military officer: Indian forces were alert Sat irrespective of ceasefire 
--Military officer on Pak conflict: Have a roadmap, will follow diligently 
--Military officer on Pak conflict: Hard to speculate upcoming developments 

--Military officer:Response to be fierce, punitive if ceasefire violated Sun 
--Military officer: Army ordered to retaliate if ceasefire violated Sun too 
--Military officer: Pakistan's ceasefire violations were dealt with aptly 
 

NEW DELHI - The Indian military will to respond "fiercely" and "punitively" if Pakistan violates the ceasefire agreement on Sunday night again, India's Director General of Military Operations, Lieutentant General Rajiv Ghai, said. The chief of army staff, after a security review earlier Sunday, granted full authority to army commanders for counteractions in the kinetic domain in case of ceasefire violation by Pakistan, Ghai added.

The Pakistan military, within two hours of the anouncement of ceasefire agreement with India on Saturday, violated the understanding and attempted drone strikes at multiple locations in Jammu & Kashmir starting 1900 IST. The Indian armed forces dealt with these strikes "robustly" and appropriately, Ghai told mediapersons, adding that they were alert Saturday night despite the ceasefire understanding. He also termed Pakistan's violations as "expected". 

"In situations such as this, sometimes these understandings take time to fructify and manifest on the ground. It is our mandate to be prepared at all times, and that we were," Ghai said. "It is not as if because there was an understanding we weren't prepared. I must tell you that the armed forces were on very very high alert and they continue to be as we speak," Ghai said at a press briefing.

Saturday's understanding was aimed at immediate cessation of hostilities and director generals of military operation from both sides were scheduled to talk again on Monday at 1200 IST to discuss the modalities to ensure the longevity of the agreement, Ghai said. "But unfortunately we had a violation. We have sent a communique to Pakistan's military operations directorate and we will await what happens tonight."

"We have sent a hotline message to my counterpart, highlighting the violations of the understanding between the DGMOs on May 10," Ghai said. "And a firm and clear intent to respond to these "fiercely" and "punitively" if repeated tonight, subsequently or later."

While it is difficult to speculate how the sitation may evolve going ahead, Indian armed forces do have a roadmap, which they would follow diligently, Ghai said. "Whatever has to be done will be done. I am not concerned what Pakistan will do. I am only concerned what we will do. We have a roadmap and a plan and we wll follow it diligently."  End

IST, or Indian Standard Time, is five-and-a-half hours ahead of GMT

Reported by Krity Ambey and Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

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