Public sentiment regarding the India-Pakistan tensions post-Operation Sindoor is polarized. There is cautious support for India's counter-terrorism actions, seen as a necessary stance against Pakistan's perceived role in harboring terrorists. However, there is significant anxiety over escalation risks, with concerns about potential war, civilian casualties, economic instability, and nuclear conflict. There are also criticisms of political motivations behind the military actions and a strong call for de-escalation to prevent further harm.

India

Pakistan

Misleading title. Read the article both parties were advised deescalation.

computer_scientist_

What the fuck is with this uber-jingoism? People, you can sit safely away from the border and cry for war, but if neither country de-esclates, we will be the ones to suffer. War is hell. Matters have escalated way beyond targeted strikes on terrorist facilities. We need a deescalation.

Natsu111

CelebrationReal9871

Deceptive headline. He didn't ask only pak to de-escalate but both countries

Suspicious-Size7033

This is just a token system. We have precisely reduced the tariffs for US so it doesn't interfere.

MahatmaBapu69

tera_chachu

Oh please US is gonna profit like they always do during most wars.

Specialist_Offer_511

Literally this reminds me of the School principal who tries to break up the fight between two students who are fighting with each other but both sides refuse to listen and continue throwing punches at each other while the Principal watches helplessly

Emergency_Drawer_538

Ye 100 200 bdhiya waale jet kitte din me deliver hjaege crowd funding krke lelete hn

Educational_Theme262

Bhai USA rehne de! Apne NATO ke turkey ka warship khada karwa ke ye dhakosala karne ki zarurat nahi hai! 

🤡Pakistani ko ham khud thanda kar denge!

Competitive_Spend_77

We are proud of S400 defence systems and our own Akash

Own-Coat7436

Wow daddy trump telling modi and pak to cool it. Damn.


Also the US OF A should not be lecturing India. Those guys were the kings of escalation.

And how pathetic is that our own government does not see the folly of war and the orange cheeto has to chime in. 

We are ruled by clowns in wolf clothing

envy_772

I thought JD Vance said it not USA's problem?

Icy_Effort7326

Mods have pinned a [comment](https://reddit.com/r/india/comments/1kgewjd/india_announces_operation_sindoor_against_pakistan/mqy694j/) by u/FlyingScript:

&gt; Source: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2127370

spotlight-app

Just a note am leaving here for all


Whatever might be happening, All make sure to not spread misinformation, dont post videos or pics of any troop movement or anything, dont go to other subreddits and spread hate

Peace

_The_Sad_Cactus_

https://preview.redd.it/r3guv6lo38ze1.jpeg?width=533&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=7515af963a5494b66937bcaf0c1bec42993a13cc

cheesydiponsweatytit

Distinct_Cod2692

The kid that wanted to destroy India from the grape video must be chalking up the blueprint for Pakistan’s retaliation plan.

BishSlapDiplomacy

Just a reminder to everyone not to spread fake/old videos. Due diligence before sharing anything you see online.

ItPains

Akshay Kumar already getting a draft of his next movie ready

Manav_Khanna17

From Argentina, all the support to India!

Abject-Answer-1585

God save the innocent people and destroy the terrorists

bayartsco

Oh my god...we are witnessing history. I hope, this doesn't escalate too far beyond anyone's control.

mirincool

Dutchkhan

Feeding the drill news to actually attack was really nice! Hopefully it doesnt escalate into something.

Cultural-Duty5452

[deleted]

Source: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2127370

FlyingScript

9 terror camps across Pak have been targeted. No civilian/mililtary targeted. -PIB Delhi press release.

8xhwhx8

So the drills today were a decoy.. smart… hopefully it doesn’t escalate, but if it does, we are ready.. Edit for dumbos: I am not ready for war, but I know the country’s army is. Also, children, war is bad, but the army not being ready for one at all times is even worse.

zaldrizes_007

Much love from Nepal to indian army ! 
! 🇳🇵 ❤️ 🇮🇳 

For those who say it was not religious... by killing of Nepalese citizen, terrorist proved that you can be from any country , just being hindu will enough for killing you.

Funny-Bit-4148

Against Pakistan ❌ Against Terrorists ✅.

If the Pakistani government wants to help us clean their terrorists they can otherwise they should stay out of the issue as they have been unable to clean their own backyard.

scytheer

BC sach mein ho gya ye toh, I didn't think we'll do it

CompileAndChill

mock  drill toh bahana tha, yeh toh real ho gaya

Fragrance_lavinder

Bhayu poora Pakistan utha dia hai, ham sab news channel khol kr bethey hue hain raat k 1:30 bje

RingAvailable2887

I maybe wrong and I hope am not. But wouldn't Pakistan have moved all their assets (terrorists) after the Pahalgam attack? Would love to know tons of terrorists died in those blasts but need confirmation

right_wingr10

Should have handed Hafiz, Masood, Dawood when Pak had time...

Informal-Pea-9760

MakaButterfly

Confident_Web_7919

Hoping that this doesn't escalate. War is always bad for the economy

be_a_postcard

is there an official twitter account i can follow pls? i dont know whats true anymore.

redmerc17

I look at sub Pakistan and India and read posts nationalist morons who think that everything is the fault of the other side, that we are obviously the good ones without flaws and the enemy military must be exterminated, although they write about the same problems with corrupt politicians, overpopulation and expensive housing.

RavenSorkvild

According to news reports Pakistan are facing a critical shortage of artillery and ammunition due to large scale exports to Ukraine and Israel.

Small-Visit2735

Anyone from Srinagar did they actually attack Srinagar Air Force base?

Consistent-Action353

Bollywood will make about 10 movies from this incident.

skr_rdt

IngenuityIll5959

I just browsed through the Pakistani Sub and it is Chaos over there, I was glad to see some moderate voices for Peace, but most were deriding Indians as Cowards and Baying for blood. It does not help that Civilians were, Allegedly, harmed.

I fear we may be stepping closer towards total War against Pakistan, I hope I am wrong, but there will be retaliation and they too may target Cities in the name of Revenge.

EasternPreparation96

anid98

Chuttad_rao

Frankly, I am scared of the consequences -- as per Pak's report they won't take it light. Eventually it would escalate to war between two nuclear nations.

  
I seriously loathe the people who desperately want a war

SunNeat9202

Good news. Kudos. I hope the operation was successful.

blr_to_mlr

They fought a war before as nuclear powers. Don't worry. Pakistan doesn't have the balls to try that.

Financial-Pay-4216

If my mom and dad were alive , they'd have got dark flashbacks of the 1971 war( where they'd have to run to dug up grounds and bunker like areas for more than 10 days since our sour neighbours wanted to attack the financial capital mumbai) .  I'm glad they're at peace somewhere and don't have to witness this once again ( if it escalates to that situation again ).

Vengeance_1411

This is a measured response against a nation constantly involved in cross border terrorism. Proud of the Indian Army

juancorleone

JF-17 has been confirmed to be shot down and pilot is reportedly killed 

Dmoan

extreme_reincarnated

https://preview.redd.it/sukw4seie8ze1.png?width=720&amp;format=png&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=d9a26cb2e9c9a1d08413432d240441428c04fb75

HeadChopper_69

aspectold-8367

xhaka_noodles

SAM_FALCON4444

I’m an American with no ties to India or Pakistan.  But I remember who hid Osama bin Laden.  I’ve seen what other, similar terrorist groups have done in countries ranging from Nigeria to the Philippines, Israel, and my own USA.  It’s a pity Pakistan has nuclear weapons, but I support India’s right to defend itself.  Good hunting.

Melodic_Yam_8991

PeeOnYoFace007

bro this is like...not good. If Pakistan escalates, it could become a big issue very fast.

Yotuberfrench

I love how they picked a Bollywood-esque name. The only group benefited from this war will be the Indian masala filmmakers, they got 10 years worth of material! 😆

Classic_Smell_9910

A response so secretive that even their Radars and SAM's were caught off-guard, and couldn't detect the incoming missiles😉

Personal-Business425

examiner007

Honestly after seeing all the people celebrating this as if it's a fun thing, this guy's points have only become more concrete to me

All should read this - [https://x.com/aravind/status/1919414216823345197](https://x.com/aravind/status/1919414216823345197)

superuser726

YaBoiPalmmTree

Mysterious-Tap-3987

What does this mean for the civilians on both ends? This uncertainty and anxiety is going to give so many people like me hard days ahead.

Technical-Tough-1699

ts was scary ngl, heard planes overhead at one in the morning and ik hassi mazaak apni jagah but when its so close to u it gets very real VERY quickly. I hope this situation doesn’t escalate further. I hope everyone stays safe

coucouchierry

I see comments saying the mock drills were a means to catch Pakistan off guard for these strikes. But are they still happening regardless? Because Goa has a naval base and military facilities here and there.

bsousa717

Dr-Cyrax

I am so confused, how did we enter Pakistan and fly close to 100 km and were able to attack without any detection/ retaliation?? Like how does this happen every time???

SpeakWhenImportant09

Just hope this doesnt escalate in something worse, terrorism sucks ass, but you gotta be careful when its involving 2 countries with nuclear power. Praying for u all

AtsutaMuka

Ever since 1994 Coimbatore serial blast where 200 died...personally I fed up with its still continuation. Somewhere there should be a boundary...enough is enough.

Edit: I understand the year is wrong it was 1998. it is a mistake in my part. But the causalities is more than the 'official' number. My extended family members were in police and they know the real carnage. I personally just left 5 min before from one of the complex that blown away. It is one of the earliest attacks that used sophisticated explosives. I am not here to bash anybody tbh.

Top_Dragonfly9300

The thing is we as a country need to establish the fact, that we will not tolerate cross border terrorism. And that is what the government has been trying to establish, by operations like the Surgical Strike, Balakot Air Strike, and now Operation Sindoor. And these strikes are important if we want to concretely put forward our stance on terrorism.

_Im_Sherlock

So people are expecting that Pakistan will go sane if we keep quite?
But what is Pakistan?

Is it People who don't support violence against India?
Pakistan Army?
Terrorists operating from their Land?
Islamic Extremists?
Incompetent and corruption Government?

Designer-Winter6564

This is the point. Mourn for the civilians who died as collaterals. But we did need to show that we will not sit quiet.

My main concern now is escalation, and then how to stop Pakistan from harbouring terrorists.

At the same time, it's not right to celebrate or justify collateral deaths. That's sadistic.

lastofdovas

Sure, but Do u think India could've increased security before doing such thing?

Also, where do u live, as I live near borders, and its tensed af here, If u don't live near border or have any real threat, I am not saying this operation was bad, I am saying security could've increased before launching it

Elegant_Noise1116

True man. I mean what message are you sending across to the world by continuously doing nothing againsy terrorists that are attacking our people? India needs to show up for itself and make it clear that we are bot going to be messed with. While I do not condone and praise the loss of innocent civilians but doing nothing just makes us an easy target for many more terror attacks to come in the future. Enough is enough.

inilashremot

Every death that happens due to the conflict, India is not responsible for it. It's the Pakistani army and Pakistani government. You cannot blame India for the collateral damage in Operation Sindoor. India would have never attacked if Pakistan had not done the terrorist attack. There is undeniable proof that Pakistan is a terrorist nation. India doesn't need to prove anything to the world if they want to deliberately turn a blind eye for their self-interests. India needs to protect its citizens as well as work within the laws of Dharma, that's why India has been non-escalatory since the dawn of time. It's in our blood to be noble and righteous, not out of some religious belief but through reason. Pakistan is objectively evil, many of it's people are naïve. While India needs to restrain from going out on full scale war, we need to ask ourselves, what would krishna do? How would he tackle an entity like Pakistan? We need to realize this is not Rama Rajya or Dwapar yuga. This is Kali Yuga, the age of absolute evil. The purpose of following dharma is to sustain humanity. Pakistan is based on a cancer that spreads as an idea or by force, corrupting and killing humanity, turning humans into zombies. How would Krishna destroy such evil? I have the answer, but I'll let you ponder on the question and come up with answers yourself. The comment is already too long.

Classic-Audience-219

There's a line I read somewhere that's 100% accurate "it's easier to guilt the side that still believes in morals".
But we are not going to be sorry for this attack. We stand by our troops and our right to defend our land and people.

maverix89

Kashmiri people are collateral damage , nobody gets to call this operation as justice, if government still fail to find real offenders, the terrorists who have done Pahalgam attack.

Feeling Sorry for People living near Border.

Yesterday Everyone was putting out status about Operation Sindoor but what about civilians who got killed.

Nobody cares about them anymore

Real Offenders are still not caught or killed, this operation will be justice if those are killed.

Also , Our Government can't afford this war.

Pakistan has already lost,their govenment is not stable ,  they don't have anything to lose, but we have so much to lose.

Rare-Progress-4939

There were intel reports on possible breaches in Srinagar, much before Pahalgam could happen. Why aren't people outraged about the same? The women lost their husbands because the GOI failed to protect these men. And now there's this war with "Sindoor" written all over it. By all means, question Pakistan, but also question your own government. The people on the other side of the border are equally fed up.

SunSunny07

it was necessary but it was not planned well for the aftermath , too many casualties taking place rn.

purrrr_kitten

It's very easy to celebrate violence. While yes I agree that operation sindoor was necessary, I don't understand if we had the intel why wait for a terrorist attack to happen? Our country's civilians are still dying at the cross border firing. Anyone who promotes war should join the army first.

grayishugh

First of all, one needs the basic common sense to understand this was an attack on terror camp not on another nation.

As the Indian army had rightly said, it was measured, responsible and non-escalatory in Nature.

If any one of them thinks it was an attack on a specific country, you are already saying that the country is a Terrorist. 

Also providing shelter to terrorists is equivalent to aiding the terrorism. They aren't innocent.

Randomsameer

Yes true... It was needed
They don't think about our civillians deliberately targeted them in pehalgam
What our government did was retaliation. Feeling bad for civillians who lost their lives in pakistan. But these terrorist should get taste of their own medicine. If our government wouldn't have take actions they would have call our country coward and would have been encouraged to attack India more.

CharacterWinter2804

the realest thing i’ve seen on reddit today. india didn’t target a single civilian, while pak govt n army is trying to villainise our country in the eyes of global politicians and countries. ur right, pak has a history of harbouring and training terrorists to send to india + lying about it (and we always find out anyways), hence this attack was a response, not aggression. and india has since announced that they will not be doing anything further, unless pak does, and i think that’s fair. as a human before any religion, i hope that no one on either side is hurt during a feud between something that isn’t even related to them. and would would be the worst possible outcome for both of us, which is why i hope everyone is sane enough to avoid it and deescalate the situation. praying for both indian and pakistani civilians, praying we all have long happy lives and there is peace 

rh34exe

Wake me up when the actual justice is carried out by nabbing the 4 militants who carried out the killings.

Till then, all this is entertainment.

I'm 100% sure that some time in the future if any of those four militants are gunned down, we wouldn't be having 100 posts per day on the same topic.

basil_elton

I am so done with these peace merchants. Dozens of innocent Indians were killed and they still care about "innocent" Pakistani lives. If any civilian had died, it's sad but that's the cost Pakistan had to bear to kill Indian citizens. You can't kill our citizens and then say what about ours.

NavdeepGusain

I’ve lost multiple friendships over this issue in the last two days, mostly women as well who think India is a war monger and Pakistan however it is, should not have been attacked by strikes because a single child died. It’s appalling that a child died but we attacked terror installations, the chief of the LeT himself admitted his family members died, what more proof do you want for our intent? 

One of them even said Pakistan will not take it lightly, Shehbaz Sharif will attack, bloody let them, how much more do you want this country and its people to take? The British destroyed our sense of self and after Independence a failed state has been doing and trying to do the same. It’s only our Armed Forces and collective sense of being that has made us resist all such divisiveness and these Papa ki Pari’s sitting in LBZ think it’s wrong and they’re scared? I mean we didn’t start this, things were under control before Pahalgam, people loved going to Kashmir. 

Just because a failed state acts like this, we are under no compunction to take it lightly and turn the other cheek, Gandhi and his ideals are utopian but unfortunately he didn’t leave us a utopian country, practicality mandates aggression especially when it is against our soil and our people. Nobody wants war, India was doing alright, with all our issues we were trying to move forward and solve things slowly, we have been put into a state of war by our failed neighbour who doesn’t have anything to lose, they’ve already lost whatever credibility they had. I say fuck Pakistan and it’s State, we don’t want and neither wish for occupying that country but they attack my own they best believe me and millions more like me are  right behind our soldiers. 

paxindicasuprema

The attack was necessary, but people who are demanding for a proper war (met a lot of people like that) are the ones who are in wrong

Sleeper--

No Indian will ever call Kashmir - the land that was never ours. 

It is this stupid trend of people from other countries creating fake accounts as Indians.

life_of_pluto

Agreed — it was definitely needed.

That said, I can’t help but wonder: if these locations were already known as training grounds for Kasab and others, why did we wait from 2008 until now to act?

Also, how many terrorist leaders have actually been eliminated? I haven’t heard of even one. If they’re still alive, they’ll just keep creating hundreds &amp; thousands more like them.

Operation Sindoor might slow things down temporarily but that’s about it. Meanwhile, Pakistan's army continues to target civilians in Poonch and nearby regions. Sadly, the casualties — whether soldiers or civilians — on the Indian side seem to be only increasing after Pahalgam attack, first due to terrorists and now due to Pakistan army.

I genuinely hope things lead to a positive outcome and that all terror elements are neutralised asap. India shouldn’t wait for the next attack to respond.

Just my perspective — open to hearing what others think.

Actual-Topic6103

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated after India's military operation, Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist bases in Pakistan. The operation includes a strike on the Jaish-e-Mohammed headquarters, which is linked to the 2002 murder of journalist Daniel Pearl. Reports of Abdul Rauf Azhar's alleged killing have resurfaced public interest in Pearl's murder case. Simultaneously, Pakistan has intensified cross-border hostility through drone and missile attacks on Indian territories. This has led to heightened military tensions and a significant impact on bilateral relations, with strategic operations and military responses being executed by both nations. The crisis has resulted in widespread security measures in India, temporary suspension of cricket leagues, and global calls for de-escalation.

India-Pakistan Tensions Escalate Following Operation Sindoor

Why This Matters

Public Sentiment Summary

Highlighted Comments

Parties Involved

What the people want