US Army General Says ‘Watching Situation Closely’ After India’s Operation Sindoor Strikes

<p>A top American military commander has said that the US is &ldquo;watching the situation very closely&rdquo; after Indian military strikes on terror targets in PoK and Pakistan’s Punjab province.</p>
<p>India launched <a title=”Operation Sindoor” href=”https://news.abplive.com/topic/operation-sindoor” data-type=”interlinkingkeywords”>Operation Sindoor</a> early Wednesday, hitting nine terror targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan’s Punjab province in retaliation for the April 22 terror attack that killed 26 people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s right now too early to opine on any of that. We&rsquo;re watching the situation very closely. We&rsquo;re nested with our higher headquarters and USINDOPACOM as the information about these strikes becomes more clear,&rdquo; US Army Pacific Commanding General, General Ronald Clark said during a digital press briefing Wednesday.</p>
<p>The United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) is one of six geographic Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces, headquartered in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Clark was responding to a question on the US view of the developing situation after the strikes by India.</p>
<p>Earlier on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said he wants India and Pakistan to &ldquo;stop&rdquo; the conflict, saying if he can do anything to &ldquo;help&rdquo;, he will be there.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Oh it&rsquo;s so terrible. My position is I get along with both. I know both very well and I want to see them work it out. I want to see them stop and hopefully they can stop now. They have gone tit for tat, so hopefully they can stop now. I know both, we get along with both the countries very well.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Good relationships with both and I want to see it stop. And If I can do anything to help, I will be there,&rdquo; Trump said in response to a question on the &ldquo;war&rdquo; between India and Pakistan.</p>
<p>Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told reporters in New Delhi on Wednesday that the Indian military carried out a &ldquo;measured, non-escalatory, proportionate, and responsible&rdquo; strike to dismantle terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan to &ldquo;deter and to pre-empt&rdquo; any further terrorist strikes.</p>
<p>Addressing a packed press conference, Misri said it was deemed essential that the perpetrators and planners of the April 22 attack be brought to justice as there was &ldquo;no demonstrable&rdquo; step from Islamabad to take action against the terror infrastructure on its territory or on territory under its control.</p>