‘Informed Pakistan just after we struck them:’ MEA rejects conjectures over Jaishankar’s statements–

Indian international ministry on Thursday (May 22) dealt with a significant conflict over priest S Jaishankar’s earlier statements on Operation Sindoor and made clear that India notified Pakistan “after” the strikes on horror hideouts were released.

Foreign ministry representative Randhir Jaiswal claimed throughout a regular presser that Pakistan was notified via the “Director General Military Operation channel” after India struck the horror websites. He made clear that the details was communicated just after verification of the strikes.

Earlier, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi had actually criticised
Jaishankar
and affirmed that the federal government of India notified Islamabad ahead of time regarding the approaching strikes on terrorist framework, pointing out a declaration from the international priest.

“Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime. EAM has publicly admitted that GOI did it. Who authorised it? How many aircraft did our air force lose as a result?” Gandhi claimed in a blog post on X.

Gandhi mentioned a clip of Jaishankar in which the international priest claimed, “At the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan, saying, ‘We are striking at terrorist infrastructure and we are not striking at the military.’ So the military has the option of standing out and not interfering in this process. They chose not to take that good advice.”

However, right after Gandhi’s statements, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) recently emphasized that Jaishankar’s statements were “misrepresented”.

“EAM Jaishankar had stated that we had warned Pakistan at the start, which is clearly the early phase after Op Sindoor’s commencement. This is being falsely represented as being before the commencement. This utter misrepresentation of facts is being called out,” the External Publicity department of the MEA claimed in a declaration.

The Press Information Bureau’s Fact Check Unit additionally provided an explanation, stating Jaishankar “has not made any such statement” and is being“misquoted.”

Operation Sindoor
, released by the Indian Armed Forces on May 7, 2025, targeted terrorist framework in Pakistan and Pakistan- inhabited Jammu andKashmir The procedure was an action to the April 22, 2025, Pahalgam horror assault, which eliminated 25 Indian private citizens and one Nepali resident.