Response and restraint: An escalation between India, Pak must be avoided

Given the circumstances and the nature of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, it must be noted that India and the Indian armed forces have shown remarkable restraint

In the early hours of Wednesday, Indian armed forces conducted an operation, named Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan. Nine sites that were used to plan and direct terrorist attacks against India were targeted. As a statement by the Ministry of Defence noted, the action by Indian armed forces was focused, measured, and non-escalatory in nature. It was not targeted against any military facility in Pakistan. The limited objective was to dismantle the terror infrastructure, which could be used to send terrorists across the border. This was not an attack on Pakistani civilians. The