The night skies over Pakistan since May 7 bore witness to a truth so profound, so paradigm-shifting, that its tremors will be felt for generations. This was not merely a retaliatory pinprick; this was the roar of a resurgent India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, unequivocally declaring that the era of its strategic patience with Pakistan-sponsored terror is decisively over. In a stunning display of precision, audacity, and unwavering resolve, Operation Sindoor struck at the very core of Pakistan’s military nerve and its terror-industrial complex. It left the Pakistani establishment exposed, rattled, and desperately scrambling for a global intervention to stop India.

For the first time since the ignominious surrender of 1971, which bisected their nation, generations of Pakistanis, long fed a diet of jingoistic superiority and religious fanaticism by their military masters, witnessed the unthinkable: their country’s most fortified military strongholds and urban centres under direct, sustained, and punishing Indian fire. Operation Sindoor was certainly not a mere symbolic gesture.

Indian strike packages, flying with impunity, systematically targeted eleven high-worth air bases across the length and breadth of Pakistan – from Shorkot to Sargodha, from Kamra to Jacobabad. These weren’t just airfields; they were the frontline bastions of Pakistan’s air defence. In a matter of hours, their operational capabilities were crippled, their runways cratered, their hardened aircraft shelters breached, making any emergency mobilisation of fighter aircraft a logistical nightmare, if not an impossibility.

As Indian firepower lit up their skies, an undeniable reality dawned upon the average Pakistani, a reality starkly different from the fabricated narratives peddled relentlessly by........

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