India carried out precision strikes in Pakistan, no wrong attack, says FM Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Highlighting effective use of technology in Operation Sindoor, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that it helped to hit the precise targets in Pakistan

“We had the technology which could talk between the three forces. We carried out hits at precise targets and there was no wrong attack,” Sitharaman said during an interaction with staff of Pine Labs, a fintech company, in Noida (Uttar Pradesh). Further she said that India, today, has reached such a level that countries globally are recognising it for its achievements. And “Operation Sindoor actually showed that,” she said.

Appreciating the armed forces, she said that they were very clear from the beginning to the end that they wanted to attack the terrorist centres and hit them. If they (Pakistan) were rational enough, she said, they wouldn’t have done any more mischief because they don’t take any action against terrorists, and they allow them to roam in their country freely.

“Pakistan, literally, has become the fountainhead for terrorism. India, however, was determined not to allow its citizens to suffer and thereafter we hit the air bases in Pakistan only when they attacked our religious places and citizens,” she said.  

Following the terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22, in which 26 people were killed, Indian armed forces launched Operation Sindoor and hit terror infrastructure in Pakistan.

The Minister, who was visiting the company’s office, also witnessed demonstrations by Pine Labs on innovative fintech solutions being developed around prepaid instruments, the Account Aggregator (AA) framework, and digital services used in the Public Distribution System (PDS), and other government schemes and services.

She acknowledged India’s fintech firms’ contribution to expanding the country’s digital public infrastructure (DPI) and in enabling seamless, secure and inclusive financial services for merchants and micro and small medium enterprises. She made an appeal for more and more expansion of digital ecosystem, and said the role of States would be critical.

Digitisation push

“We want every State to speed up digitisation. We are also helping them in expediting it. While giving the 50-year interest-free loans to States for capital expenditure, we underline that we will incentivise States who get on to digitise their records at the earliest. So, we want digitisation to happen sooner and in every sector,” she said during the interaction.

Published on May 27, 2025

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