This is an unedited draft of a special The Intersection column that appeared 2025-05-09 in Mint. In response to last month’s terrorist attack on Pahalgam, India conducted Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7th carefully targeting terrorist-related infrastructure not only in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but in the heartland of Punjab province. Pakistan claims that its forces downed five Indian Air Force aircraft on the Indian side of boundary. Indian strikes continued yesterday, targe...
