‘No limit in protecting sovereignty’: Rajnath says India prepared for ‘responsible responses’ to Pakistan

FP News Desk May 9, 2025, 10:17:05 IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that ’there is no limit’ in protecting Indian sovereignty as he warned Pakistan that New Delhi ‘won’t flinch’ in defending itself

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Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with the three Indian defence chiefs, Army General Upendra Dwivedi, Naval Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, and Air Force Air Chief Marshal A P Singh and Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, in New Delhi. PTI
Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with the three Indian defence chiefs, Army General Upendra Dwivedi, Naval Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, and Air Force Air Chief Marshal A P Singh and Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, in New Delhi. PTI

As the tensions between Pakistan and India escalated following the Thursday night exchange, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh issued a statement warning Islamabad that New Delhi won’t flinch taking any step to defend itself. “There is no limit that we cannot cross to defend our national sovereignty,” Singh said while addressing the National Quality Conclave.

“India has always been a responsible nation. We have always believed in dialogue for solutions. But that does not mean that we will allow anyone to take unfair advantage of our tolerance and patience, and if anyone dares do that, we will give the same kind of quality response as yesterday,” he furthered.

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The remarks from the Indian defence minister came hours after India foiled Pakistan’s failed attempt to strike military installations in the Northern and Western parts of the country. The Pakistani provocation came a day after the Indian defence forces conducted Operation Sindoor, targeting nine terror camps in Pakistan.

Operation Sindoor is still on

Earlier on Thursday, Singh conducted an all-party meeting in which he made it clear that Operation Sindoor is still ongoing. He also noted that the Indian Army ensured that there were no collateral civilian casualties throughout the operation.

“I congratulate our armed forces. We are proud of the way they demolished terror camps in Punjab and POK,” Singh said, emphasising that the success would not have been possible without quality weapons.

In a separate statement, India’s defence wing of the Press Information Bureau elaborated on what happened on Thursday morning. “Pakistan attempted to engage several military targets in Northern and Western India, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, using drones and missiles,” the statement reads.

“This morning, the Indian Armed Forces targeted Air Defence Radars and systems at several locations in Pakistan. Indian response has been in the same domain with the same intensity as Pakistan. It has been reliably learnt that an Air Defence system at Lahore has been neutralised,” it furthered. Following the exchanges between the two nations on Thursday evening, India has maintained that it has responded “proportionally to Pakistani aggression”.

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