Operation Sindoor, a just payback

The public outrage following the barbaric Pahalgam terror attack and the kinetic punitive action taken by India after the Uri and Pulwama attacks had made such action inevitable this time. In the event, Operation Sindoor turned out to be qualitatively different from the shallow surgical strikes of 2016 and the Balakot strike of 2019. The latter was aimed at a single target and the lack of evidence of the damage caused had resulted in some doubts about India's narrative. Operation Sindoor, on the other hand, hit nine terror targets, including the nerve centres of Pakistani terror — the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)…