On the fourth day after Indian strikes on terror camps- it is now another war with Pakistan

Both leaderships are determined to escalate unless some global intervention takes place

- BY SUSHIL KUTTY

It is like the ‘Crusades’.

New Pope Leo XIV will know. He grew up in Chicago, Al Capone's headquarters, just like the GHQ in Rawalpindi, Pak army Chief Gen. Asim Munir’s lair. Does Gen. Munir fancy himself Saladin? If so, who is King Richard the Lionheart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

The point is, the ongoing warlike atmosphere in the border districts of India and almost all of Pakistan reminds one of the Crusades, which was a religious enterprise. The problem for Pakistan is that the country is too narrow a strip to contemplate a wide scope.

Then, again, India and Pakistan at war isn’t heady concoction. The daily night cross-border shelling is too routine to raise hackles. People are cheering the “war” here in India and Pakistan’s bravado is lip service, limited to TV newsrooms and DG-ISPR press briefings.

Off and on, Pakistan's Defence Minister Khwaja Asif comes up with ultimatums! Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is reticent but only a little, and hysterics is his calling card. This side of the border, nationalists crowd, many of them in TV news studios.

Hostilities entered the fourth day on May 10 and the religiously divided countries aren't tired of trading accusations, barbs, drones, loitering munitions, and missiles. ‘There’s a display of gay abandon on social media.