PM Modi's firm message to Pakistan

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Monday night was a strategic line in the sand. His words — “Terror and talks cannot go together, terror and trade cannot go together, and water and blood cannot flow together” — were aimed not just at Pakistan but also at the international community. India will no longer play by the old rules where diplomacy coexisted with terrorism, or where international pressure blurred accountability. Operation Sindoor, the swift and calibrated response to the barbaric April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, marked a tectonic shift in the country’s security posture. The Indian Army, Navy and Air Force executed a coordinated precision strike across nine terror-linked targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and deep inside Pakistan’s military zones, including Karachi’s Malir cantonment and Lahore’s radar hubs. The downing of a Pakistani Mirage jet was demonstrative of resolve.