The name for the military attack on Pakistan brings to mind a woman who became shorthand for the grief wrought by a terrorist attack.

Under Operation Sindoor that is now in its third day, India will keep the escalation dominance and maintain that de-escalation rests on Pakistan. India will ensure that the cost imposed on Pakistan will be greater than whatever cost Pakistan would try to impose on India.

The Indian government announced on Thursday that its military forces have killed Abdul Rauf Azhar, a prominent Islamist terrorist with reported indirect involvement in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief,