Political Handling of Op Sindoor Was Incompetent & Irresponsible: Inst. For Conflict Management

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Political handling of Operation Sindoor was incompetent and irresponsible; constant need to claim credit will be our undoing: Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management, to Karan Thapar for The Wire .......................................... In an interview that could rattle the government, the Executive Director of the Institute for Conflict Management and one of India’s foremost authorities on terrorism has said that the political handling of Operation Sindoor was incompetent and irresponsible. Dr. Ajai Sahni also said that the constant need to claim credit will be our undoing. He said one of the consequences of India’s policy of treating every act of terror as a declaration of war is that in economic terms “India looks like an excitable and very unreliable partner”. In a comprehensive 45-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Dr. Sahni, who is also the Executive Director of the South Asia Terrorism Portal, was asked who had the upper hand when the 4-day conflict between India and Pakistan ended and said “both are losers … measured by the environment we have created”. Dr. Sahni said that “no lasting damage” has been done to the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and claims by the Indian Express that 20% of Pakistan’s air force infrastructure has been destroyed are “ludicrous”. Dr. Sahni explains that he does not believe that the LeT and Jaish have been deterred and, worse, the Pakistan army and ISI may increase their efforts to build-up capacity for these groups. It is, therefore, quite possible the problem of terror could get worse. A very significant chunk of this interview is about the reasons why Dr. Sahni believes the political handling of Operation Sindoor was incompetent and irresponsible. I am deliberately not giving you details of what Dr. Sahni said because I think you should hear them for yourself. I am only giving you the headline which Dr. Sahni confirmed two or three times in the interview. I don’t want to run the risk of wrongly paraphrasing or précising Dr. Sahni’s arguements. Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWtJey46brNr7qHQpN6KLQ/join

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