India, May 11 -- By Ravi Joshi - Joint Secretary (Retd.), Cabinet Secretariat

Yesterday, on 10th May, the Government of India (GoI) declared a ceasefire on the Operations that it had launched on 7th May into Pakistani territory across the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB). There has been a lot of dissatisfaction across the country in the minds of our people as well as the media channels.

This has arisen due to serious misunderstanding of the objectives of this Operation (I am choosing to call it an 'Operation' because it was not declared as a War by our government, though Pakistan termed this as an 'act of war'). We must recall here that Prime Minister Modi declared in a speech in Bihar on Apr. 24 that India would ...