China shared live inputs with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor: India’s deputy Army chief

Pakistan was receiving real-time intelligence from China about India’s important military deployments during Operation Sindoor, a senior Indian Army officer said on Friday.

The comment was made by Lieutenant General Rahul R Singh, the deputy Army chief (capability development and sustenance), at an event organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

ANI quoted the deputy army chief as saying: “When the DGMO [director general of military operations]-level talks were going on, Pakistan actually was mentioning that ‘we know that your such and such important sort of...vector is primed and it is ready for action...I would request you to perhaps pull it back’. So he was getting live inputs from China.”

“That is one place we really need to move fast and take appropriate action”, he added.

Singh added that India was effectively up against three adversaries during the four-day conflict: with Pakistan leading the front, China offering extensive support and Turkey playing an important role by providing drones “along with trained individuals who were there”, ANI reported.

“In the last five years, 81% of the military hardware that Pakistan is getting is Chinese,” Singh said. “[China] is able to test [its] weapons against various other weapon systems that are there, so it’s like a live lab available to them.”

The officer also said that...

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