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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
TopicBalakot

Topic: Balakot

India media declares Balakot air strike a victory

Your daily news capsule.

In Balakot, India tested a new military reaction much different from 2016 surgical strikes

Destroying terror infrastructure is the duty of all sane people. India has done its part, and the sane in Pakistan must do the same.

Pakistan won’t abandon its proxy war after Balakot, but will find new ways of waging it

If India’s political and public reaction is excessive, it might compel the Pakistani military leadership to escalate in an attempt to save face.

Indian millennials, fed on a post-Kargil diet, don’t want strategic restraint with Pakistan

To consolidate public support for its atrocities, Pakistan needs a scary neighbour. And Congress doesn’t conjure up existential threats like BJP does.

After IAF’s Balakot strike, fresh urgency at UN to blacklist Jaish chief Masood Azhar

US, UK and France set to move UN 1267 Sanctions Committee to get Masood Azhar listed, and will try to convince China not to veto the proposal this time.

India and Pakistan at the brink, foreign policy heads into the unknown in South Asia

Countries that wish for peace must press Pakistan to make better choices and uphold its obligations as a UN member state.

Why India picked IAF over the Army and Navy to hit back at Pakistan

The PM Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Security deliberated a variety of options, but eventually chose the Indian Air Force to carry out the strike on Balakot.

Balakot is the first time one nuclear power has used air strikes on another’s territory

Only twice have two nuclear powers indulged in violent conflict — the Soviet Union against China in 1969, and the India-Pakistan Kargil War in 1999.

India has called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff again, but Modi cannot become complacent

Pakistan and the world will have to keep the redefined red lines in mind. But India can’t be complacent, because Pakistan’s compulsive bad habits return.

This is not war against Pakistan, but against terrorists based there: Kargil war general

General V.P. Malik (retd) says Pakistan could retaliate via strong military action or by activating terrorists who could carry out attacks across India.

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