India-Pakistan relations: War is never the answer, but leadership must reinforce that truth

“Nobody wants war” is conventional wisdom. But it takes stellar leadership to continually remind people that war is never in anyone’s interest.

After the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 28 innocent tourists were killed, India was justifiably outraged. India has long been one of the worst victims of terrorism. It’s a grim litany of pain, marked by lives lost and dates etched in our collective memory—most notably, 26/11 in Mumbai, where we lost 170 people.