India's Resolve Is Now Stronger

The cowardly and dastardly attack by Pakistan through its operatives has sparked outrage across the globe, with Prime Minister Modi condemning it as a "desperate and cowardly act" and assuring the victims' families that the "conspirators and perpetrators will face the harshest response" and that India will "pursue these attackers to the ends of the earth."

- R.K. PACHNANDA

India has received resounding support from the USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia and several other countries.

This attack truly reflects the desperation of a failed state which has nurtured a jihadi army chief, fed on a staple diet of fundamentalism far more than he can digest. It was highly uncharacteristic and against all norms of military discipline for him to speak in a rebellious and rabid manner at the Overseas Pakistanis' Convention in Islamabad, in the presence of the Pakistan Prime Minister. His comments have shocked the conscience of those who value army ethos and have extinguished all hopes for the future of a democratic Pakistan.

The indelible "Bangladesh scar" embedded in the DNA of the Pakistani army will never heal, for it has been used as a perpetual excuse for military dominance over Pakistan, trampling human and civil rights forever. The recent attack was Pakistan's desperate attempt to reignite the anti-India frenzy, justify military control and derail normalcy and development in Kashmir, seemingly timed deliberately during the visit of U.S. Vice President Vance to India.

We salute Prime Minister Modi for his most prompt and proactive response to this barbaric attack — from cutting short his visit to Saudi Arabia, with the immediate visit by Home Minister to Kashmir to assess the situation firsthand, asserting dominance along the Line of Control and International Border, sealing the Attari border, expelling some Pakistani officials from the Pakistan High Commission, halting visa facilities, sending back Pakistani nationals, and suspending the Indo-Indus Water Treaty.