MEA rejects claims that India informed Pakistan before launching Operation Sindoor, clarifies on Jaishankar's statement

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Saturday dismissed allegations that India had informed Pakistan in advance of launching Operation Sindoor.

The clarification came amid claims by the Opposition that External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar admitted to prior intimation to Islamabad before the military action.

The MEA said Dr. Jaishankar's remarks had been misinterpreted and that the message to Pakistan was sent 'after' the operation had already begun.


“EAM Dr S Jaishankar had stated that we had warned Pakistan at the start, which is clearly the early phase after Operation Sindoor’s commencement. This is being falsely represented as being before the commencement. This utter misrepresentation of facts is being called out,” the XP Division of the MEA said in a statement.

The statement was in response to an undated video of Jaishankar shared by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in which the minister is heard saying: “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.”

Reacting to the clip, Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, posted on X, “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?”


The Press Information Bureau's Fact Check Unit also stepped in, reiterating that Dr. Jaishankar’s remarks were taken out of context and denying that any prior intimation was given to Pakistan before the strikes.


Operation Sindoor was launched following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. According to officials, the operation was focused exclusively on terror infrastructure and did not target Pakistani military installations.