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Message to Pakistan

By launching a precision military strike — Operation Sindoor — targeting nine terror camps located in Pakistan and Pakistan controlled Kashmir, two weeks after the Pahalgam terror strike, India has sent a clear and an unequivocal message to Pakistan that its sinister act of sponsoring terror from its border cannot go unpunished anymore.

No doubt, it is the most expansive and widespread retaliation by India in recent years since the Balakot airstrikes in 2019 and the surgical strikes following the Uri attack in 2016.

It is time Pakistan understood the futility of using terror as an instrument of state policy to destabilise India and dismantle terror infrastructure on its soil once and for all.

M Jeyaram

Sholavandan (Tamil Nadu)

Old habits die very hard

This refers to ‘Pakistan ready to ‘wrap’ tensions if India de-escalated: Defence Minister Asif’ (May 7).

While such a meek surrender by the Pakistani Defence Minister could owe it to highly precise attack by the IAF, on nine terror targets (launched between 1.05 AM and 1.30 AM) but the fact also remains that he just can’t be taken at face value.

Since old habits die very hard, India ought to keep a constant tab on Pakistan’s designs. So better keep the pot boiling by keeping Pakistan on tenterhook.

SK Gupta

New Delhi

Stakeholders hit

Apropos ‘Bhushan Steel: Was liquidation the only solution?’ (May 7). Apex court’s verdict was based on the egregious IBC lapses of the National Company Law Tribunal and Appellate Tribunal by giving the approval to Bhushan Steel’s takeover by by JSW Steels Limited.

But ordering liquidation seems a punishment to the shareholders, creditors, employees and other stakeholders, since the IBC resolved Bhushan Steel is taken over by JSW in running condition.

As suggested by the writer Apex Court could impose severe penalties for such violation on the wrong doers without altering the takeover as that would have shown its concern for the shareholders and employees’ welfare.

NR Nagarajan

Sivakasi

Subsidise mechanisation

Apropos ‘Kerala dairy farmers to strike on May 16 over low procurement prices’ (May 7), high input cost is the major part of the production cost which is haunting most milk producers even in other States, of which labour cost is the highest.

However demand for ₹70 per litre may have to be reviewed from the angle of affordability of consumers. Ideal remedy is to support farmers in mechanising the sector with interest free subsidy on dairy related equipment to strike a balance between input costs and dropping milk production.

However, Kerala’s geographical and climatic issues may also add to low fodder production that augments input costs.

Rajiv Magal

Halekere Village, (Karnataka)

Published on May 7, 2025