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Unpopular regimes get a boost from these kinds of military conflicts. After India's attack, even the [Pakistani] military critics, who are generally liberal and secular, were demanding that Islamabad should teach a lesson to New Delhi,
Naazir Mahmood, an Islamabad-based political analyst, told DW The BJP's future policy towards Pakistan, however, will remain the same until Islamabad renounces its claim on Kashmir and stops promoting terrorism. That has broadly been the policy of other political parties as well,
This narrative bolsters the image of a 'Modi-led India' as being assertive, muscular, and with zero tolerance for jihadi terrorism. Axiomatically, this leads to the 'defender of Hindus' narrative, which has electoral benefits. The upcoming Bihar assembly elections will be a test case,
What we must understand is that the support for the military emerges from an anti-India sentiment. The military will now present this brief war as its own success. It will be used for image-building,
The Pakistani military's interference in politics will increase further, and the space for politicians will reduce even more,
For India and Prime Minister Modi, the April 22 attack had to be responded to, more so after the opposition and social media users played clips of Modi berating former PM Manmohan Singh in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008 [for a lack of response],
Uday Bhaskar, a retired Indian naval officer, told DW We are facing so many problems because of the army,
a cab driver in Karachi told DW a month ago I do not think the ceasefire is acceptable to all Indian nationalist groups as it falls drastically short of their expectations of inflicting losses on Pakistan,
We have protected our country and did not emerge weak. We shot down Indian fighter jets and attacked India at various places,
she said, referring to Islamabad's claims Although the military already controlled all spheres of governance, its grip on politics will now be tightened,
They are keeping Khan behind bars because he has challenged the military's dominance,
When a U.S.-designated terrorist operates openly, participates in high-profile events like funerals for LeT members, and receives no rebuke or prosecution from the host state, it significantly undermines the U.S. counter-terrorism sanctions architecture,
Sajjan M. Gohel, ... international security director at the London School of Economics, told Newsweek While Pakistan officially denies links to terrorism, such public displays contradict those claims. It sends a defiant message to countries like India, the US, and others that Pakistan retains ties with these elements, despite international pressure."
According to Ashok K. Behuria, Fellow and Coordinator of the South Asia Centre at MP-IDSA in India's capital, New Delhi Pakistan Markazi Muslim League is a political party who believes on Politics of Humanity and Ideology,
according to its Facebook page These (terrorism and terrorists) are things from our past
Who decides that your or me are terrorists or we are not terrorists?”
These (terrorist) leaders are no more... they are living, not dead, but do not indulge in terror activities, either in Pakistan or across the border in India or in any other country.”
These are not clerics or civilians — they are designated terrorists and those who support them, ... They claim that only civilians were killed in the strikes on the 7th of May. We have made the point very clearly that all attacks on the morning of 7th May were against carefully selected terrorist infrastructure, terrorist targets.”
Few individuals are more integral to LeT’s fundraising than Hafiz Abdur Rauf,
the US Treasury had earlier stated while designating him under its sanctions list Nine terror targets were identified after careful deliberation under Operation Sindoor. More than 100 terrorists were killed in nine terror attacks in the early May 7 operation,
