Speaking about India’s recent Operation Sindoor against Pakistan, Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh recalled the challenge of convincing the public about the extent of damage in the 2019 Balakot airstrike. “In Balakot, we could not get anything from inside, and it became a big issue trying to tell our own people what we had achieved. We had intelligence that there had been huge damage and many terrorists neutralised, but we could not convince our own people,” Singh said.