One Year Since the Pahalgam Terror Attack
A year has passed since armed terrorists walked into the meadow at Baisaran and killed twenty‑six Indian civilians. India responded with Operation Sindoor—the most intense and openly declared Indian military response to a Pakistan‑based terror attack in the country’s history. Twelve months on, what does the strategic landscape look like? Has the international community responded the way Delhi had hoped? What has happened to the perpetrators—and what does Asim Munir’s rise to Field Marshal tell us about the incentives that structure Pakistani behaviour? Has India itself changed the way it responds to such attacks? And what has Pahalgam cost India’s larger grand-strategic trajectory, the pivot from Pakistan to China that was defining Indian foreign policy until the attack?