India, May 28 -- While Delhi claims strategic success, key questions linger: Was nuclear escalation ever imminent? Who brokered the ceasefire? As media hails a new deterrence era, critics warn that silent victories may sow deeper uncertainties

Op Sindoor may have moved from Page One to Page Three. But it won't go away as PR people are making hay while the sun shines. In the 90-hour non-contact aerial skirmish, India's military performance is being hailed by Western experts as 'if not a victory, setting new benchmarks in precision strikes, deterrence domination and escalation control'. India, for the first time, achieved its stated objective with evidence of destroying terrorist infrastructure in the heart of Punjab, Pakistan and PoK in a...