‘there Will Be A Response And It Will Be Punitive’: India Warns Pak After Ceasefire Breach

“There will beryllium a response—and it will beryllium a punitive one.”

That was nan blunt informing delivered by Lieutenant General Rajiv Ghai, Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO), aft Pakistan violated nan ceasefire wrong hours of its announcement. 

Speaking astatine a typical briefing connected Sunday evening, Lt Gen Ghai confirmed that India has put Pakistan “on notice” and made clear that immoderate further provocation will beryllium met pinch fierce retaliation.

Ghai said he had spoken straight to his Pakistani counterpart astatine 3:35 p.m. Saturday to work together connected a halt to hostilities. “However, expectedly, it took only a mates of hours for Pakistan to break these arrangements,” he noted. 

Drones were spotted and intercepted complete Jammu and Kashmir—including Srinagar—and parts of Gujarat. Cross-border firing besides continued done nan night.

“These violations were responded to robustly,” Ghai said, adding that nan Chief of Army Staff has fixed afloat authority to retaliate against immoderate early breaches. 

A general hotline connection has been sent to Islamabad informing that immoderate repetition will trigger a beardown subject response.

The Indian Navy has revealed its guardant combat posture during nan operation. Vice Admiral AN Pramod, Director General Naval Operations, said bearer groups, submarines, and aviation assets were deployed pinch afloat readiness wrong 96 hours of nan April 22 Pahalgam panic attack.

“Our forces were prepared to onslaught astatine oversea and connected land—including Karachi—at a clip of our choosing,” he said. 

Pakistani naval units were mostly forced to stay adjacent ports, nether changeless Indian surveillance. “We had complete conflict abstraction transparency,” nan Vice Admiral added, crediting India’s maritime domain consciousness systems.

In nan air, India’s operational separator remained intact. The Director General of Air Operations confirmed each Indian pilots had returned safely. 

Responding to questions connected combat losses, he said, “Losses are portion of combat scenarios,” without elaborating further.

Published on: May 11, 2025 7:56 PM IST