That would be the day when B2 – Spirit bombers drop bunker busters to obliterate Pakistani jihadi training camps and ammunition dumps. Can PM Modi’s diplomatic initiative led by Dr Subramanyam Jayashankar achieve this?
By Debasish Roy
NEW DELHI: June 24, 2025: United States’ national interests seems to be harmed by Iran’s nuclear programme, which prompted the US military to bomb Iran’s facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. However, Pakistan’s extensive terror network and factories producing soldiers to kill Hindus in India for the last 70-80 years never seems to bother the United States. In fact, just after India scratched Pakistan’s terror infrastructure with three days of missile bombardment, Pakistan’s failed Marshall Asim Munir was invited to lunch and was declared an ally for the United States.
Inviting a pip-squeak to a rich man’s banquet and praising him for actions in a war where the pip-squeak lost miserably must be only to ensure that the rising power in the region, a.k.a India stays put in its place. It could possibly mean that the United States may also bomb Indian installations as Pakistan is a trusted friend of the United States. Theoretically?
Games people and nations play. What do they amount to? What does the United States want from India so that it pivots from grudging nods to India’s diplomatic initiatives to active military support on the seas and in the air?
The United States’ military bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan were used to support the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facility by the B2 – Spirit squadrons. India does not allow the United States to maintain military bases within its sovereign soil. In fact, India will never do that. Right?
The United States wants India to buy the obsolete F16 in its new packaging called the F21. India is not likely to buy that either. Right? Today, India is actively looking at buying the Sukhoi-57, technology-and-all, to be manufactured within India and exported jointly from India by India and Russia. That looks like a sweeter deal compared to any buy of either the F21 or the F35.
Whereas it may be noted that India itself did not obliterate Pakistan’s terror factories but just scratched them in a three-day war under Operation Sindoor. India’s Members of Parliament have gone on record in the media saying that India had just targeted the runways at military air bases in Pakistan and has not destroyed the whole infrastructure. So, the question arises, is India following orders from a greater diplomatic good or is it keeping Pakistan alive for another election in the future?
Since, the current Indian government had taken over on May 26, 2014, the day Prime Minister Modi was sworn in to Parliament, India has refrained from taking over the Pakistan Occupied region of Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) by force. Foreign Minister S Jayashankar has repeatedly stated that the Kashmir problem will be permanently solved when India takes over PoJK but when will that happen? It is 11 years since the beginning for this current political dispensation in India.
What is going to happen that is so dangerous that India keeps talking about destroying Pakistan or shaving off Pakistan’s territories by taking over the PoJK but just not doing anything about it on ground level? Fear of reprisal from bigger players? What about the friction over land at the Indo-Tibetian border with China? Why not declare Tibet as an independent country? Too big a step? For whom?
Even the war being waged under Operation Sindoor was beset with two mysterious elements. One, it was stopped abruptly after three days. Two, there was vague admissions of loss of Rafale aircraft, details or debris of which were never released. It was almost as if the Prime Minister had instructed military personnel to declare loss of Rafales to pressurize Dassalt in releasing the source code. Why hadn’t the source code been asked for when the long negotiations were happening with the now deceased Manohar Parrikkar? Who ordered to stop a winning war so that the enemy could regroup? This column fails to find answers to these questions.
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