When PM Narendra Modi congratulated service chiefs for Operation Sindoor, he told Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, "Humne aapke mooh se niwala cheen liya, aapko mauka phir milega (I have snatched the morsel out of your mouth...but your turn will come)," HT reported. Earlier, the Indian Navy had said Karachi was in its line of fire.