The 2025 India–Pakistan conflict was a brief armed conflict between India and Pakistan that began on 7 May 2025, after India launched missile strikes on Pakistan, in a military campaign codenamed Operation Sindoor. India’s attempt to internationalize its grievances — through backchannel diplomacy and strategic media briefings — failed to gain expected traction. Instead of Pakistan being cornered, it was India that appeared diplomatically isolated. The post-attack narrative had shifted from terrorism to regional tensions. Following a terrorist attack on April 22, India launched punitive strikes on Pakistan on May 7. This began a four-day conflict between India and Pakistan from May 7-10, which became the most serious military crisis in decades between the two rival nuclear states. The 2025 India-Pakistan conflict, sparked by the Pahalgam terrorist attack in Kashmir, escalated rapidly into a four-day military confrontation between the nuclear-armed neighbors. While both nations claimed victory, a closer examination of events, social media narratives, and geopolitical outcomes reveals Pakistan’s clear strategic and tactical triumph. Below, we dissect the conflict through military, diplomatic, and public sentiment lenses to demonstrate why Islamabad emerged as the ...
