One border, three enemies: Deputy Army chief reveals how China and Turkey aided Pakistan during Operation Sindoor

China was providing all possible support, he said

Speaking at an event in Delhi on Friday, deputy chief of Army staff (capability development and sustenance) Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh said that during Operation Sindoor, there was not one but three adversaries that India had to deal with.

“Few lessons that I thought I must flag as far as 'Operation Sindoor' is concerned -- Firstly, one border and two adversaries, actually three. Pakistan was a front face. China was providing all possible support. In the last five years, 81 per cent of the military hardware with Pakistan is Chinese,” he said, adding Turkey also played an important role.

He was speaking at the event 'New Age Military Technologies' organised by FICCI.

"When the DGMO level talks were going on, Pakistan was getting live inputs of our deployment from China. So that is one place we really need to move fast and take appropriate action," he said.

India had launched Operation Sindoor targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians and for which The Resistance Front (TRF), a front for Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had claimed responsibility.

All subsequent retaliation from the Pakistani side were dealt strongly by India until a ceasefire agreement was reached at after four days of intense hostilities between the two nuclear-armed nations.

Earlier, reports suggested that around 300-400 Turkish drones were used by Pakistan to target military and civilian areas in India. According to an official government statement, Operation Sindoor also produced concrete evidence of hostile technologies neutralised by Indian systems --including pieces of PL-15 missiles (of Chinese origin), Turkish-origin UAVs, named "Yiha" or "Yeehaw" and long-range rockets, quadcopters and commercial drones.

"These were recovered and identified, showing that despite Pakistan's attempts to exploit advanced foreign-supplied weaponry, India’s indigenous air defence and electronic warfare networks remained superior," the statement read.