Pakistan, May 8 -- "No one can harm Pakistan," DG ISPR's words at a press conference marking one year of Marka-e-Haq carried remarkable weight because they had come after a conflict in which India failed to impose the script it had written for Pakistan. Size, money, diplomatic reach and a heavily marketed image of military superiority did not translate into coercive success. That is the central fact Delhi still struggles to stomach.

Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry went further: "A year ago, we ground India's pride into the dust." Stripped of rhetoric, the point is not difficult to understand. For years, India has tried to convert every crisis in Kashmir into an indictment of Pakistan, often moving from accusation to punishment before eviden...