00:00A month has passed since India struck the terror factories operating deep inside Pakistan on 7th May.
00:19And while the fog of war still lingers, one thing is becoming clear.
00:25Operation Sindhoor was a game changer.
00:28I am Tilak Divesha and you are watching The Great Game Reloaded.
00:35Yes, Pakistan has been scrambling to twist the narrative.
00:40Obfuscating facts, pumping out propaganda and drowning its losses in spin.
00:46But the battle damage assessments are trickling in.
00:49And the evidence speaks louder than any press release.
00:53Let's start with the ceasefire.
00:56That spoke volumes.
00:58On 10th May, the Pakistani Director General of Military Operations reached out to his Indian counterpart asking for a ceasefire.
01:07No spin can cover up the reality.
01:10This was a white flag, a surrender.
01:13And what forced that white flag?
01:16The sheer devastation of Operation Sindhoor.
01:20Originally a response to the Pahlga massacre, Operation Sindhoor became something far more significant.
01:27It became India's new national security doctrine that sent an unambiguous message that terrorism will now be treated as an act of war.
01:38There is no hiding behind the nuclear shield.
01:41There is no distinction between a terrorist and his sponsors.
01:47And here is the striking part about Operation Sindhoor.
01:50India didn't cross the line of control.
01:53India did not violate the international border.
01:56These were precision strikes launched from within Indian territory.
02:05Pakistan tried hard to manufacture a victory.
02:08It claimed Indian losses on 7th May and praised the prowess of its air force, powered of course by Chinese technology.
02:18But if Chinese technology was so effective, why was it no way to be seen on May 8th and 9th when India struck again deeper, harder and more decisively?
02:33India penetrated Pakistani airspace, bypassed sophisticated air defenses and hit strategic targets.
02:43Pakistan couldn't retaliate.
02:44It couldn't even respond.
02:46The so-called superiority of the PAF and Chinese weapons systems exposed for what they really were, propaganda.
02:5511 air bases were hit and its doctrine shattered.
03:01What truly broke Pakistan's will was the scale and accuracy of Indian air strikes.
03:0811 air bases were hit across Pakistan.
03:11Strikes on Noor Khan air base in Rawalpindi, dangerously close to Pakistan's GHQ and Islamabad.
03:20Mushaf base in Sargoda, housing F-16s and nuclear assets.
03:24Shahbaz base in Jacobabad, another key strategic installation.
03:30The message, India knew exactly where to strike and how to do it.
03:36Pakistan's narrative machine, same playbook, no takers.
03:42In the aftermath, Pakistan launched a three-part information war, claiming the Kashmir issue had been internationalized, arguing that the world had re-hyphenated India and Pakistan.
03:55It was the first time a field marshal's baton was handed out after a military defeat.
04:20Moreover, since this was primarily an air battle, if anyone had to be promoted, it should have been the air chief.
04:29What did Munir do in the battle?
04:31He presided over a defeat.
04:34External Affairs Minister S. Jai Shankar made it clear, there is no international mediation.
04:44Our dealings with Pakistan remain strictly bilateral.
04:49That position has not changed, and it won't.
04:53Meanwhile, global focus returned to Pakistan's long-standing terror links.
04:59Photos and footage emerged of Pakistani generals and senior police officers attending the funerals of L.A.T. terrorists,
05:08some standing directly behind Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a U.S.-designated global terrorist.
05:16As for Pakistan's claim that Behelgam was a false flag operation, just as they claimed that Pulwama in 2019, no one bought it then, no one buys it now.
05:29And their call for a neutral investigation met with silence again.
05:35For decades, Pakistan played the nuclear card.
05:42Its policy was premised on the assumption that acts of cross-border terrorism would be followed by Indian restraint.
05:50Why?
05:51Because of their narrative that any retaliation risks nuclear escalation.
05:57India called the bluff.
05:59That shield is gone.
06:01Operation Sindur broke it.
06:03India showed that it has the will to strike back, and strike back with precision, without crossing borders, and without triggering escalation.
06:14There is a new doctrine, clear, unambiguous, and irreversible.
06:19If there is a terror strike on Indian soil, there will be a military response.
06:24And next time, India may not just strike terror camps.
06:28It may choose to target Pakistani intelligence or military facilities responsible for orchestrating attacks.
06:37That is the Modi doctrine.
06:39It is the new red line.
06:41Now that the dust has begun to settle, even sceptics admit Operation Sindur was tactically brilliant.
06:54India demonstrated it could hit targets anywhere in Pakistan, strike terror infrastructure in Punjab, penetrate deep-strike airfields, and back it all up with indisputable imagery.
07:08Pakistan could lie its way out of this.
07:11It couldn't claim nothing was hit.
07:14The evidence was too clear.
07:17What happens now?
07:19Will Pakistan stick to the ceasefire understanding?
07:21That's the big question.
07:23Because the cost of terrorism has gone up drastically.
07:27With a collapsing economy and international patients wearing thin, Islamabad will need to think twice before its next misadventure.
07:38But India has to remain vigilant.
07:40Because the psychological bruising of defeat runs deep in Pakistan.
07:459 terror headquarters and 11 air bases were destroyed.
07:50Air defense systems were neutralized.
07:52The narrative of victory sold to the people of Pakistan is wearing thin, given the evidence of the reality coming out every day.
08:02Pakistan may feel compelled to respond, not strategically, but symbolically, to save face.
08:10Let me end with an anecdote from a different war of 1971.
08:19On the day of Pakistan's surrender in East Pakistan, it wasn't Radio Pakistan that broke the news.
08:25It was All India Radio.
08:27And the stunned Pakistani public learnt of General Nyazi's surrender in Dhaka from the Indian Prime Minister's address.
08:36Radio Pakistan softened the blow.
08:39And I quote,
08:40Following an arrangement between the commanders of India and Pakistan, fighting has ceased in the Eastern Theatre and Indian troops have entered Dhaka.
08:51Unquote.
08:52The formal admission came later that evening, at 7.15pm, December 16, 1971, from Yahya Khan himself.
09:02He tried vainly to bolster the morale of the country by saying that the war with India would continue.
09:09Pakistan had lost only a battle, but the war would carry on.
09:14Yet, following Mrs. Indira Gandhi's unilateral offer of a ceasefire in the West, Pakistan's Emergency Committee met and spent more time debating the time zone of the ceasefire announcement.
09:29IST, GMT, PST, NFPST in terms of West Pakistan Standard Time or East Pakistan Standard Time, rather than the fact of defeat itself.
09:44Some habits of denial, it seems, die hard.
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09:53See you again soon with another topic and another anecdote.
09:57Till then, I am Tilak Divesha.
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