‘Pakistan asked for ceasefire, we kept them waiting’: Ex-defence chief Anil Chauhan recalls Operation Sindoor
Pakistan had requested a ceasefire on the morning of May 10 last year during Operation Sindoor, but India deliberately delayed its response as it had “not even executed half” of their planned strikes, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan has said. Former Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said Pakistan’s decision to seek a ceasefire stemmed from a belief that its strikes on Indian targets had achieved their intended effect. (PTI File) Speaking at ThePrint’s Off The Cuff event, Gen Chauhan said Pakistan contacted India through the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) hotline that morning. New Delhi, however, deliberately kept Islamabad waiting till the afternoon. “The biggest surprise to me was on 10 May, when Pakistan picked up the phone and said they wanted to talk. This was because, on 9 May, the kind of rhetoric emerging from their side was that they would sort India out in 48 hours. Within about eight hours, they picked up the phone. We had not even executed half of our plans,” General Chauhan …
