Gauging Pakistan’s obsessive focus on him and leveraging his own reputation as the decisive leader with the will to strike back, Prime Minister Narendra Modi got inside Pakistan’s head by controlling its gaze: dictating both what it saw and what it didn’t.

This was followed by a skilfully executed communications strategy that not only left Pakistan scrambling to cover up its demons, but rendered it bruised, battered and exposed for the world to see. For Pakistan, it began with a sense of perception dominance and ended with humiliating defeat on all counts.

When Islamist terrorists – bred by Pakistan’s terror machine – singled out male tourists and executed them in front of their wives and children, they embodied the darkest, most grotesque face of evil. That day, every married woman in India instinctively clutched her mangalsutra and looked at her husband with tear-filled eyes.

The terrorists knew exactly what they were doing – they weren’t just taking lives, they were targeting symbols of love, stability, and faith. They wiped the sindoor off our women’s foreheads. India couldn’t stay silent.

Operation Sindoor is the answer – a response as deliberate as it is devastating, to remind Pakistan that the price of butchery will be paid in full.

The Pahalgam attack was a direct assault on India’s idea of security, on its religious identity, and on its psychological equilibrium. Pakistan’s terror playbook was in full swing: hit hard, provoke outrage, escalate tensions, and trap India into a reaction that could be globally condemned. But the script did not unfold as Asim Munir, his terrorist cohorts and his government minions may have expected.

On May 7, midnight between 1.28 am and 1.44 am, Pakistan’s night sky lit up with Indian missiles. India struck Pakistan’s terror........

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