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THE WEEK India
|May 11, 2025
Pahalgam has been avenged, partly. Only the knockout punch remains. It will be delivered at a time, spot and in a manner that India and its armed forces, or its other coercive arms, choose.

Avenged, you may ask. How? On the action side, we have only sent back a few innocent Pakistani citizens, stopped trade, and threatened to choke their rivers. What's the big deal in these? Nothing.
We hit back by not doing what Pakistan's mullah-generals, who have been recruiting urchins and training them “to do dirty work” as their defence minister admitted, wanted us to do.
The generals expected us—not only the state of India but the people of India too—to get angry. Indeed we are angry; but we aren't showing the anger in the way they thought we would. They thought India would get provoked over the lines of faith, and that the whole of India would turn into a post-Godhra Gujarat. That's why they trained their unschooled boys to ask our tourists about their faith, and then chose the victims by their faith.
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