India, May 7 -- The package of measures adopted against Pakistan after last year's terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, were collectively the strongest deployed against provocation by that country in recent times. Attention has mostly focused on the kinetic measures taken - Operation Sindoor in brief. In Pakistan, however, possibly a greater significance is attached to India placing the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance given the country's many anxieties, both as an agricultural economy and as a lower riparian State.

These diplomatic-cum-military measures were far weightier than those taken after previous terrorist outrages, such as the attack on Parliament in December 2001 or the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008. Therefore, how ...