'That the Indian government described it as a 'non-military pre-emptive' attack was an indication that it doesn't want to do anything to escalate the situation into a full-scale war.' Analysis | K S Dakshina Murthy
Just a day after US President Donald Trump described the situation between India and Pakistan as “very dangerous”, India validated that description by sending a few top-end Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft into Pakistan on Tuesday, in what it said was a “pre-emptive non-military” strike.
Ever since the attack on Valentine’s Day, February 14, India has witnessed outrage with a range of responses from various sections – some calling for war on Pakistan, others demanding a surgical strike on the JeM and some people asking that all ties with Islamabad be severed. That the Pulwama attack took place just a couple of months before the all-important general elections to India’s Parliament caused the pitch to rise hysterically even more than at most other times. The elections, expected in May, will determine the fate of Mr Modi and the federal coalition led by the ruling nationalist pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party.
In 2016, in response to a terror attack on an army camp at Uri in Indian administered Kashmir which killed 18 soldiers, India mounted a 'surgical strike' across the line of control in Pakistan which New Delhi said took the life of “38 terrorists and two Pakistani soldiers.” In December 2001, when India’s Parliament building was attacked, while it was in session, by suspected Kashmiri separatists including JeM, the then coalition government led by the BJP under prime minister A B Vajpayee amassed troops on India’s border with Pakistan threatening to go to war. The then US president George W Bush reportedly intervened, averting a conflict.
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