India Has a Long-Term Plan With Pakistan

India Has a Long-Term Plan With Pakistan

New Delhi aims to root out cross-border terrorism, but it risks fueling discontent.

'Selective outrage has a cost'

The mourning began long before the missiles flew. On 22 April 2025, a terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, left 26 civilians dead—among them, children, women, tourists, and local residents. The horror of it spread swiftly through India and across the world, carried not just by headlines but by the visceral sense that something had ruptured. A line had been crossed—not just by the attackers, but by the expectations of restraint India has long shou…