Indus waters still remain India's best Trump card

To take precise steps against the Pakistan-inspired and trained terrorists, their handlers and the Indians who joined them in a senseless attack on civilians in Pahalgam is the challenge facing India now.

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The planning and operational parts of a strike against Pakistan for its nurturing of terrorism has, however, been left to the chiefs of the armed forces. As the suspense builds over what India’s armed forces have up their sleeve regarding sending a military message, besides India’s diplomatic offensive against Pakistan in international space, there appears to be more nervousness across the border where Pakistan’s armed forces are running full-scale war game exercises even as they claim to have upped their preparedness on a war scale against any Indian strike.