You might find the air in Islamabad particularly heavy these days. Islamabad these days carries a heavy spirit. Forget the everyday hum of a capital; what hangs in the air is a tangible sorrow, a justified anger, and a quiet, firm resolve, born of necessity. Imagine the gravity as Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, our DG ISPR, presented the awful truth of India’s recent attacks: 33 Pakistani souls extinguished, 62 more bodies and spirits wounded. Don’t let these be just cold figures. Instead, feel the individual losses – the vibrant lives that no longer beat, the paths now abruptly ended, the homes where grief now resides. Each life lost, as the General rightly emphasised, weighs profoundly on “the conscience of the armed forces, the people and the state of Pakistan.” It is a collective burden, a shared grief.

Observing the spiraling events, you are compelled to ask: is there not a discernible pattern, a disturbing playbook that India deploys with alarming regularity? Analyze the DG ISPR’s assertion: India’s current belligerence stems, at least in part, from a deep-seated frustration. This frustration, as you would have noted, was magnified globally when the international community acknowledged Pakistan Air Force’s capabilities in decisively shooting down India’s much-vaunted Rafale fighter jets, an event that left India palpably named and shamed on the international stage for its military vulnerability. Does this not paint a psychological profile of a regional power lashing out, apparently willing to “put global peace at risk” to soothe a bruised ego, with what appears to be scant regard for the human cost?

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