No Stoppage of Aggressive Rhetorics by India and Pakistan

Neither India nor Pakistan is holding on aggressive rhetorics after the June skirmishes. Both are thumping their chests and patting their backs. Last week, Indian chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal, A P. Singh, revealed, for the first time, that the Air Force, took down six Pakistani aircraft during the Operation Sindoor.

Though India is yet to share with public how many aircraft it lost in the operation which was launched Post Pahalgam terrorist attack. It said just that losses are part and parcel of any war.

However, several persons outside India claimed that the country had lost three aircraft during the short skirmishes. On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India brought Pakistan to its knees within hours.

Meanwhile, Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi last week said that "...the next war which we are looking at, it may happen soon, and we have to prepare accordingly, and in this we have to fight this battle, non-kinetic one, together.''

On the other side, during his recent visit to US Pak army chief Asim Munir threatened to destroy any infrastructure India builds that could destroy water flow to Pakistan. He warned that as nuclear power, it would take half the down with if it faces an existential crisis.

"We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with the missiles. The river (Sindu) is not in the Indian family's property. We have no shortage of missiles,'' he was quoted as saying by the media at a function in US.

There is a famous saying that war is continuation of politics by other means. The sabre rattling by both countries is the expression of political compulsions of the political bosses. But it must end, and the two should sit across the table and end differences over conflict zones through peaceful means as prime minister Narendra Modi once that said the age of war is over.