The United States annual intelligence report has said that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “more likely” to respond with force to Pakistani provocation. The annual threat assessment of the US intelligence community report 2021 said, “Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations”.
Remember, in the past, in the backdrop of terror attacks like Pulwama in February of 2019, India responded by “Balakot airstrikes” deep inside Pakistani territory. Indian Air force planes had struck terror camps in the vicinity of Balakot town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In 2016, after the Uri attacks, Indian forces conducted surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Highlighting that “tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan remain a concern for the world” the US intel report released by the Director of National…