Pakistan Army Chief Warns India at Conflict Anniversary

Pakistan's top military leaders marked the first anniversary of last year's brief conflict with India on Sunday with a ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, where Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir warned that any future aggression against the country would bring "extremely widespread, dangerous, far-reaching and painful" consequences.

Munir, serving as Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff, addressed the event alongside Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhu and Naval Chief Admiral Naveed Ashraf. The leaders laid wreaths at the Martyrs Monument and received salutes from armed forces contingents. Munir described the occasion as a source of pride for Pakistan, its people and military, framing the four-day hostilities from May 6 to May 10, 2025, as "Marka-e-Haq," or Battle of Truth, rather than a conventional war. He called it a decisive ideological clash in which "truth prevailed over falsehood."

The conflict began after a deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, 2025, that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. Indian authorities responded with Operation Sindoor, launching airstrikes on nine alleged terror sites...