In his first address to the nation after Operation Sindoor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, 12 May, said operations against Pakistan have only been kept in abeyance and the future will depend on their behaviour.

The prime minister termed the Pahalgam attack as the most “barbaric face of terrorism”, but the enemy, he said, has now realised the consequences.

Operation Sindoor, he said, was not just a name — the world saw India’s resolve and more than a hundred terrorists killed.

“India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail,” he said, presumably referring to widely aired concerns about military actions potentially testing the nuclear threshold. “We have only kept in abeyance our operations against Pakistan; the future will depend on their behaviour. A new line has been drawn,” he said, indicating that Operation Sindoor had set a new paradigm to deal with terrorism.

Modi said India will not see terrorists and their state sponsors separately. “This is not an era of war,” he said, referring to a statement he’d made earlier, urging Russia and Ukraine to cease and desist, “but it is also not an era of terrorism”.

“Pakistan has to dismantle its terror infrastructure. There is no other way to peace,” the prime minister said.

Saluting the security forces, PM Modi dedicated their bravery to India’s mothers, sisters and daughters.

With PTI inputs. More highlights of his speech and the day's events in our live blog linked below.