Can the US counsel us on restraint and negotiations? | Faraz Ahmad

May 3, 2025

India suffered attack by communally biased terrorists from Pakistan killing 26 tourists in the serene and peaceful hills of Pahalgam in Kashmir after ascertaining that all of them, except one, a Kashmiri Muslim pony owner who dared to snatch the gun of one of the terrorists to save the victims, were non-Muslim, including a Christian Nathaniel.

The very nature of this attack, so different from the previous terror attacks from across our western border, was so despicable that it has angered the entire Indian nation, and the country is standing united, expecting our government to teach such elements and their patrons a lesson never to be forgotten. I am no warmonger. Nor has India announced yet its intent to go to war with Pakistan. We only have the statement of our Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who claimed that in a telephone conversation, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth upheld India