PPP Senator Sherry Rehman has congratulated the military and political leadership for emerging victorious against India, saying a new redline of ‘strategic conventional deterrence’ was established during the conflict.

Speaking during a Senate session, the PPP leader says the nation was united and manned on different fronts during the Indian aggression.

“India had launched a narrative war, a huge information war like no one has seen in modern combat time,” she says. “This war was thrust on us, Pakistan is a rational country and emerged as a mature, responsible nuclear state.”

She says India pointed fingers at Pakistan accusing it of being a terrorist state without any evidence after the Pahalgam attack. “They attacked us without warning, without provocation in the dead of night. Within one hour, PAF made history in a compressed battlefield unlike ever seen in modern warfare,” she adds.

“Our air force excelled in a narrow envelope and made combat history. India doesn’t know what just happened. They are still gathering their intelligence and reconnaissance.”

She says the Chinese have emerged as strategic victors as it was their aircraft untested in the traditional battlefield and their missiles.

“We have a new redline of strategic conventional deterrence established. Pakistan has achieved dominance in the tactical field with India’s far more expensive forces.”

The senator goes on to say that during this war, new redlines were crossed by them without provocation. “This hot war was the first which escalated so quickly since Kargil”.

She says the US had to interfere and India couldn’t hide the fact that it asked for a ceasefire. She said Information warfare was part of the instrument, while India weaponised water for the first time.

Rehman adds that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is still calling it a strategic pause. “We are not Palestine. We will hit right back with lethality and maturity.”

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