On the night of May 6-7, 2025, two weeks after the Pahalgam attack in which gunmen killed 26 tourists at a meadow in Anantnag district, India launched missile strikes on nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The operation, codenamed Sindoor, targeted infrastructure linked to militant groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Three days of military confrontation followed before a ceasefire took effect on May 10.
This package carries a curated list of stories that examine the operation and its aftermath. It includes reporting and expert analysis on the strategic logic behind the strikes, India’s evolving security doctrine, and the diplomatic fallout. Other pieces examine the political management of the crisis: the optics, the nationalist rhetoric, the contest between the BJP and the opposition, and the media’s conduct through the conflict. The package also covers the civilians along the border villages who bore the costs, the populations caught in the drone warfare that followed, the saffronisation of military nomenclature, and what a military confrontation between two nuclear-armed states means for the region.
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