India's portrayal of Operation Sindoor as a response to terrorism targeting it since 2001 reframed the narrative.

Pakistan's military claimed that India launched drone strikes on Lahore and Karachi, a day after Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The name for the military attack on Pakistan brings to mind a woman who became shorthand for the grief wrought by a terrorist attack.