Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has said last year's surgical strikes were a message for Pakistan, one he thinks they've understood.

"The strikes were more in the terms of a messaging that we wanted to communicate to them. And I think they've understood what we mean..," he said at event held to mark the release of India Today Consulting Editor Shiv Aroor's new book: India's Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes.

With General Rawat was General Dalbir Singh Suhag, who was the Chief of Army Staff when the surgical strikes took place.

Watch what General Rawat had to say right here.