Tanishq sinha

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has long been an Indian political tradition. Here are just a few examples: 1948: India takes the Jammu and Kashmir issues to the UN and then agrees to a ceasefire when the Indian Army is marching toward victory. 1954: Without any quid pro quo, India surrenders its extraterritorial rights in Tibet and recognizes the "Tibet Region of China." 1960: India signs a treaty benignly reserving over four-fifths of the Indus Basin waters for its downstream foe, Pakistan. 1966: India returns to Pakistan, which launched the 1965 war, the highly strategic Haji Pir, which subsequently becomes a launchpad for Pakistan to infiltrate terrorists into India. 1972: At Shimla, India gives away its war gains at the negotiating table without securing anything in return from Pakistan. 2021: After China's 2020 stealth encroachments on key borderlands of Ladakh, India vacates the strategic Kailash Heights, forfeiting its only bargaining chip in negotiations, and then agrees to Chinese-designed "buffer zones" in some Ladakh areas. 2025: To put an end to Pakistan's four-decade-long "war of a thousand cuts" through terrorist proxies, India launches "Operation Sindoor," only to halt it three days later without achieving any clear objective.