With nine strikes, India underlines its new message to Pakistan

INDIA'S ANTICIPATED military response to the horrific killing of 26 innocent people at Pahalgam in Kashmir last month came in carefully calibrated fashion in the early hours of Wednesday. India's initial reaction was focused on diplomatic, economic, and political measures, and included the decision to keep the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance. That India would use military force in retaliation against the Pahalgam butchery on April 22 was never in doubt. No government in the world would tolerate an attack so brutal in nature that picked out men of one religious community and gunned them down in front of…