India, May 9 -- After the horrific massacre of civilian tourists in Pahalgam by Pakistani terrorists on April 22, India has adopted several new templates to deal with cross-border terrorism and its sponsors. Before delving into the new templates, let this be known that soon after the gruesome Pahalgam incident, the terrorists belonging to The Resistance Front (TRF), a well-known proxy of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), had given away their identity. TRF took responsibility for this macabre incident. But after some communications with LeT headquarters in Muridke (near Lahore), which was intercepted in India, it tried to disown this responsibility.

The new retaliatory templates adopted by India after the Pahalgam incident were based on our prev...