India, May 17 -- India has been surprised and more than a little disappointed at Trump's equivocation during the brief flare up between India and Pakistan.

Many are asking why it is that so many international channels and publications are essentially repeating the ISPR line in their portrayal of Op Sindoor. Why have so many fact-filled dossiers given by India failed to convince so many journalists and policymakers that what Rawalpindi GHQ is saying is a pack of untruths? Such doubters overlook the decades-long practice of the Pakistan military (and by extension the Pakistan state) to use not so much money traps but honey traps to get policymakers to do their bidding. Flash back to the 1990s, when that close (let us not use the term "inti...