While it will be debated whether India should have escalated Operation Sindoor into full-scale hostilities — or perhaps even all-out war — it is important to understand why the current “understanding" is an undeclared Indian victory, not a peace deal imposed by external pressure, as some are attempting to portray.

1. Modi has redefined the limits of tolerance with Pakistan.

India has signaled that Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail will no longer deter it from taking decisive action — even on Pakistani soil — against the so-called “impregnable wall" of the Pakistan military. India has struck deep into Rawalpindi, the very cradle of Pakistan’s military machine. Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has been metaphorically reduced to his base ideological identity — that of a frothing “Mullah." This symbolic diminution carries long-term consequences for the army’s perceived supremacy within the Pakistani state.........

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