India's CDS on Operation Sindoor

 Almost 15% of the operational time during Operation Sindoor was spent countering fake narratives and disinformation, CDS Gen Anil Chauhan said Saturday, describing the four-day hostilities with Pakistan as a "non-contact and multi-domain" conflict involving both kinetic and non-kinetic elements that "exemplifies the future of war".

"During the crisis, India retained full operational clarity and autonomy, regardless of broader geopolitical currents," the CDS said during the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore as well as in interviews on its sidelines.

India did not detect "any unusual activity" on the "operational or tactical depth" along the 3,488km Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China during this time, although Islamabad is closely allied with Beijing, he added.

Moreover, while Pakistan may have leveraged Chinese commercial satellite imagery, the CDS said there is "no proof of real-time targeting support" provided by Beijing during Operation Sindoor.

This came in the backdrop of there being no signs of de-escalation and de-induction of troops between the Indian and Chinese armies along the LAC as yet after disengagement at the two remaining face-off sites at Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh last Oct.