On May 10, 2025, India assumed that Pakistan was throwing in the towel. After being on the receiving end of four days of relentless pummelling, Pakistan’s DGMO called his Indian counterpart on the hotline, requesting a ceasefire. India obliged.

The assumption in Delhi’s strategic and military circles was that because India’s response to the Pahalgam carnage had been “assertive" and “aggressive", Op Sindoor had achieved its objective of imposing a new level of deterrence upon Pakistan. Clearly, New Delhi got it wrong.

Exactly six months later, Pakistan’s state-patronised terror organisation, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), has engineered a grievous terror attack in the heart of the Union capital. The Jaish-e-Mohammad had vowed to avenge India’s air strikes on its headquarters in Bahawalpur in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The Indian airstrikes had eliminated some relatives of Masood Azhar, the terror outfit’s chieftain. Now, in revenge, the Jaish has spilled Indian blood barely metres from the Red Fort – a hallowed symbol of........

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