Ten Takeaways from this 18-day standoff, brief conflict and ceasefire:
1. Pakistan gained an upper hand in international diplomacy.
2. Pakistan achieved conventional superiority in the air and on the ground, shattering the international belief that India has an upper hand in a conventional war.
IN DEFENCE
– 5 Indian planes were shot down in a battle with 82 IAF vs 42 PAF air battle.
– 80 Indian and Israeli made drones were shot down without inflicting any serious damage.
– The weakness of the Indian Air Force was exposed internationally.
– Indian Navy is not a real threat, as they could not capitalize on their supposed superiority.
IN OFFENCE
– 26 Indian targets were hit by Pakistani drones and missiles.
– One battery of cutting edge S-400 air defence system was destroyed.
– Multiple army posts in Kashmir were destroyed.
3. The Kashmir issue has again been internationalized which India never wanted.
4. India and the BJP Government could not keep up with their chest-thumping objectives of capturing Azad Kashmir, breaking Balochistan and punishing Pakistan.
5. BJP’s longstanding desire and their international posturing that they are on their way to becoming a superpower has crashed. The world has today equated India with Pakistan.
6. Pakistan’s mainstream media and social media came out on top in unified narrative building and gave a tough competition to their Indian counterparts for the first time.
7. Indian mainstream media and known journalists lost their reputation after airing extreme fake and jingoistic news.
8. India lost its reputation internationally because of their false flag operations and state spoken lies, as no country openly backed them up in the standoff.
9. Pakistan put to test its all-weather friends China and Türkiye, which openly supported Pakistan.
10. Pakistan emerged as a more responsible and mature country compared to India.
