Valleys and Valour

                       OPERATION 'SINDOOR'/OPERATION 'BUNYAN UL MARSOOS' A DIALECTIC INQUIRY   (Abridged) PART 3 – STRATEGIC EVALUATION   The Second Law of Unintended Consequences “ Applying force via fulcrum to leverage an object, without true understanding of all the related parameters, will move the object in the direction opposite to that intended, and if persisted, result in unintended break of the fulcrum itself .” – Col RS Sidhu   Preamble The 22 nd April 2025 massacre at Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam, India in a cross-border Pakistan sponsored terrorist act, occurred in the immediate aftermath of a religiously inflammatory address by Gen Asim Munir, the Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army and the de facto ruler of Pakistan, on 16 th of April 2025. He termed J&K as the jugular vein and emphasised the irreconcilable differences in the identity of Pakistan and a ‘ Hindu ’ India. This set th...

OPERATION ‘SINDOOR’/OPERATION ‘BUNYAN UL MARSOOS’ A DIALECTIC INQUIRY (Abridged) PART 2 – FLOW OF EVENTS   “ In a Chessboard ending it is the Checkmate to the King that distinguishes the victor and the vanquished of the Game, and not the end status of the quantum of pieces captured or balance .” – Col RS Sidhu   High Resolution Satellite Imagery of Pahalgam Episode 2022 – Obaidullah Syed, a Pakistani-American businessman and owner of Business Systems International Pvt Ltd (BSI) sentenced by a US federal court one year in prison for illegally exporting high-performance computer equipment to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. 2023 – US satellite company Maxar Technologies takes on board BSI as a business partner. June 2024 – High resolution satellite image orders for Pahalgam begin appearing on Maxar Technologies portal. February 2025 – Maxar technologies receives 12 orders, double its usual volume, for h igh resolution satellite image for Pahalgam. ...