Operation Sindoor, launched in the wee hours of 7 May, targeted nine terrorist hideouts in Pakistan; missiles launched from air, and drones launched from land ~ all from Indian territory ~ destroyed terrorist infrastructure, and killed numerous terrorists, and their family members. According to a press release by the Ministry of Defence, Operation Sindoor was the Indian response to the Pahalgam massacre, where terrorists had shot dead 26 unarmed tourists, at point-blank range, with battlefield weapons.

Humanity was left aghast; the closest parallel to Pahalgam is the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919, when British troops opened fire, on an unarmed crowd. Jallianwala Bagh made nationalists out of millions of Indians. Similarly, the Pahalgam massacre has united all Indians, including Kashmiris, against terrorists. PM Modi, who was on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, returned post-haste to Delhi. After a series of high-level internal meetings, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty, expelled Pakistani diplomats,........

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