Pakistan, May 15 -- For once the sound of drones overhead, cracking sounds of anti-aircraft guns and bangs of explosives falling from the sky seem to have subsided, thanks to a much-needed intervention by US and other well-wishers. Pakistan and India have been at odds since independence but never before the escalation took such a ferocious and dangerous turn wrapped in an absolute unpredictability and mystery. The crisis that unfolded was not spontaneous, it was manufactured and orchestrated under the guise of mindless killing of innocent tourists at Pahalgam, a despotic and condemnable event whoever did it. The so-called "terrorist attack" was, from the outset, shrouded in ambiguity. Without any shroud of evidence, the Indian government,...