The Modi Govt is preparing a tough line. Even for Nukes ... either ways.
The Govt's drill for May7th covering 244 districts including Delhi, Mumbai and far-flung Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in north east communicates that New Delhi is contemplating options that go beyond punitive raids and could encompass sustained operations — perhaps even under the nuclear shadow.
The sheer breadth of the security drill exercise as proposed for May 7th, 2025 covering 244 districts and involving civilian participation in blackouts, air raid sirens, evacuation drills, and camouflaging vital infrastructure — marks a departure from the limited, targeted responses of the past.
This is not mere chest-thumping. It is strategic messaging.
Pakistan on notice !!
Namo's India is not only angry, it is preparing.
There is no end to Pakistan's woes.
It's demand for a closed-door meeting at the UNSC backfired.
Pakistan was grilled with tough questions by member nations.
The meeting was scheduled by Greece, new president of the UNSC for the month of May.
Even China did not back Pakistan's demand for a new press statement on behalf of the 15-member UNSC.
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Once unwavering allies of Pakistan, Gulf nations like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have condemned the attack in the "strongest terms". Even Pakistan's "all-weather friend" China has been cautious with its response.
It has urged both sides to de-escalate tensions.
Such a scenario would have been hard to envision a couple of decades ago. For example, after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan's allies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE used to use words like "non-state actors" rather than mentioning terrorists in their statements.
Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations Khaled Mohamed Khiari of Tunisia briefed the Council on behalf of both departments (DPPA and DPO).
Khiari later said there was a call for “dialogue and peaceful resolution of the conflict.”
He noted that the “situation is volatile.” Ambassador Evangelos Sekeris, a Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations and the current UNSC President, described it as a “productive meeting, helpful”.
Pakistan tried to downplay Pahalgam and as usual it efforts to 'internationalise' the situation or the Kashmir issue simply failed.
Many members expressed concern that Pakistan’s missile tests and nuclear rhetoric were escalatory factors. Notably, last few days it has been foolishly announcing that it has done more than one missile test firing.
A visibly dejected Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told reporters that the country’s objectives were “largely served and achieved” at the meeting. He could not say anything else. "Pakistan's credibility is depleting faster than even its forex reserves,"
Pakistan now finds itself increasingly isolated on the global stage.
"Pakistan's credibility is depleting faster than even its forex reserves," External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, a former diplomat who also served in China, had said in 2023 after a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting.
Two years gone and Dr Jaishankar's words have come true. Critics say Pakistan seems to be losing not only credibility, but friends as well.
The May 7th security drill message is not only kinetic.
It is psychological. Civil defence drills of this scale inject uncertainty into Pakistan’s security calculus. They keep Rawalpindi guessing.
Is this preparation or prelude? Such ambiguity is deliberate. India’s visible readiness forces Pakistan to stay on high alert, 24x7. In strategic terms, this creates financial drag.
Islamabad, still reeling from an economic crisis and having secured a $7 billion IMF bailout only last year, now faces the prospect of costly military mobilisation in anticipation of an Indian strike that may or may not come.
That, in essence, is strategic psyops: not striking, but making the enemy pay.
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