Haseeb Drabu writes: How missile strike in Pakistan and PoK is India’s diplomatic gain on Kashmir

News Snapshot:

The tribal militias and irregular Pakistani forces that invaded Jammu and Kashmir in October 1947 have been known to generations of Kashmiris as “Kabalis”, mercenary raiders. Less than two decades later, in August 1965, Pakistan carried out large-scale infiltration into the Valley to precipitate insurgency in the state under Operation Gibraltar — local Kashmiris referred to them as “Mujahids” or militant missionaries. Post the Pahalgam carnage and Operation Sindoor, they shall be referred to, and remembered as, terrorists. This is going to be the most transformative and enduring gain from the attack that was launched by the Indian armed forces...