Former Pentagon official says India won diplomatically, militarily against Pakistan's aggression following Operation Sindoor

Pakistan targeted several Indian cities with drones and missiles last week after India hit several terror hubs in Pakistan and PoK on May 7 by launching Operation Sindoor.

India launched the attack in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, which left 26 people, mostly non-Muslim tourists, dead.

In an interview with ANI, he said the global attention is on Pakistan's terrorist sponsorship and noted how Pakistani officers in uniform attended the funeral of terrorists after they were killed in India's precision strikes under Operation Sindoor.

"India won this both diplomatically and militarily. The reason why India won diplomatically is that all attention is now on Pakistan's terrorist sponsorship. The fact that Pakistani officers in uniform attended the funeral of terrorists shows that there is no differentiation between a terrorist and a member of the ISI or the Pakistani armed forces. The world is going to demand that Pakistan extract the rot from its own system. So diplomatically, India changed the conversation," Michael Rubin told ANI.

"Militarily, Pakistan is shocked...Pakistan has started every single war with India and yet convinced itself that somehow it has won. It's going to be very difficult for Pakistan to convince itself that it won this 4-day war," he  said.

Michael Rubin said the Pakistan military lost very badly and Islamabad "went running to try to achieve a ceasefire like a scared dog with its tail between its legs".

"There is absolutely no spin that the Pakistani military can put on what occurred to shield themselves from the full reality of the fact that they not only lost, but they lost very, very badly. Clearly, there's a problem within the Pakistani military, both because it's a cancer on Pakistani society and because as a military, it's incompetent. Is Asim Munir going to keep his job?... Basically, Pakistan needs to clean house, but it's an open question whether they are too far gone to do that," he told ANI.

India and Pakistan reached a ceasefire last Saturday.