New Delhi: Happymon Jacob speaks with Manoj Joshi (senior defence journalist), Siddharth Varadarajan (founding editor, The Wire) and AVM (Retd.) Kapil Kak about the airstrikes carried out by the Indian Air Force in Pakistan’s Balakot.
The discussion focuses on understanding the official Indian and Pakistani responses to this operation. Why did the Indian government term it as a ‘non-military pre-emptive’ action and what objectives did the Pakistani government achieve by denying the impact of the strike.
The discussion progresses towards whether India has altered the escalation ladder in South Asia by using air power and striking inside Pakistani territory? Will this strike stop Pakistan’s support to non-state actors or will it have the opposite effect?