Op Sindoor demonstrated India’s firm resolve that terrorism epicentres are no longer immune to justifiable punishment: Raksha Mantri at SCO Defence Ministers’ Meeting in Kyrgyzstan

• Operation Sindoor (May 6–7, 2025) was India's tri-services precision strike on nine terror infrastructure targets in Pakistan and PoK, in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack (22 Apr 2025) that killed 26 civilians.
• At the SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (28 Apr 2026), Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh invoked Op Sindoor to articulate India's doctrine that "terrorism epicentres are no longer immune to justifiable punishment".
• UPSC relevance: intersects GS-II (SCO, India–Pakistan, regional groupings) and GS-III (internal security, cross-border terrorism, India's strategic doctrine).