Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday informed US Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth that New Delhi reserves the suitable to pre-empt and deter future cross-border assaults, asserting that India’s response throughout Operation Sindoor was “measured, non-escalatory and proportionate.”
Of their third telephone dialog since January, the 2 leaders mentioned increasing defence ties, terrorism, and regional safety. The decision got here weeks after India’s army response to a cross-border terror assault in Pahalgam, Kashmir, and amid a brand new ceasefire association with Pakistan.
“India’s actions throughout Operation Sindoor had been measured, non-escalatory, proportionate and targeted on disabling terrorist infrastructure,” Singh mentioned, including that, “India reserves the suitable to reply and defend in opposition to terrorism and pre-empt in addition to deter any additional cross-border assaults.”
Singh additionally thanked the USA for its “unwavering help” to India’s counter-terrorism efforts.
Each side reaffirmed their intent to deepen defence cooperation throughout sectors, together with army exchanges, defence business partnerships, and logistics.
In accordance with India’s Ministry of Defence, Secretary Hegseth prolonged an invite to Singh for an in-person assembly in the USA to take ahead the bilateral defence agenda.
Taking to social media platform X, Singh mentioned: “Glorious dialogue to overview the continuing and new initiatives to additional deepen India-US defence partnership and strengthen cooperation in capability constructing. Trying ahead to assembly him at an early date.”