Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 7 (ANI): Amid the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan following the launch of Operation Sindoor in response to the ghastly Pahalgam terror attack, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Wednesday said that everyone must stand in unison since it was a matter of national security.

He said that Congress stands with the Indian government for initiating such an action against Pakistan that aims to dismantle its terror infrastructure.

'As a political party, we are with the Indian government in taking this action. We welcome it. It is a question of national security. All of us should be one voice right now. We are with the government and the action taken by them. We have started initiating the civil defence advisories from the Home and Defence Ministry... We have taken special interest in protecting major stations such as power, irrigation, or dams,' Parameshwara told reporters here.

Meanwhile, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor lauded the government for not allowing Pakistan to expand the conflict since the precision strikes were aimed at identified terrorist bases and launchpads. He said the places mentioned in the press briefing by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had a history of hosting terrorist organisations.

'The government has taken care not to give the other side an opportunity to expand the conflict in the sense that they have only attacked identified terror bases and launchpads. The places mentioned in the (defence) briefing have been known to host terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Hizbul Mujahideen. We have really got a very responsible and thought-through approach in attacking these places,' Tharoor told ANI.

He further added that the minimum collateral damage to civilians amid the launch of Operation Sindoor clears India's stand that it wanted to dismantle the terror infrastructure and not 'kill individuals'.

'Attacking at night also minimises collateral damage for civilians. Even the Pakistanis have only claimed three civilians have been killed, which shows that we were dismantling the terror infrastructure and we were not interested in killing individuals,' Tharoor said.

Wing Commander Vyomika Singh who briefed the media along with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Col Sofiya Qureshi said that the 'Operation Sindoor' was launched to deliver justice to the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack and their families. In the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack, the Indian Armed Forces launched a strike at the terror hideouts deep inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir under 'Operation Sindoor' on Wednesday morning.

Singh informed that a total of nine terror sites were targeted and successfully destroyed. She asserted that the locations were selected to prevent damage to civilians and their infrastructure.

'The Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor to deliver justice to the victims of the Pahalgam terror attack and their families. Nine terrorist camps were targeted and successfully destroyed... The locations were so selected to avoid damage to civilian infrastructures and loss of any civilian lives', Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said.

India has carried out its deepest strikes inside Pakistan's undisputed territory since 1971, successfully targeting terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. This marks New Delhi's most significant military action within Pakistani territory in over five decades. (ANI)