You can claim victory as much as you like—after all, that’s what the Pakistan Army has always done: Kargil, Balakot, 1965, and 1971.
So what exactly is defined as "victory " in India?
-1948 -India loses 1/3 of Kashmir to Pakistan
-1949-India goes to the United Nations for mediation on Kashmir
-1954 India signs the Indus Water Treaty allowing Pakistan to interfere in any contruction of dams of the Indus tributaries
-1962 Sino-Indian war. India loses 38,000 sq.km of territory to China along a 1000 km front including the vital Aksai Chin region linking Pakistan occupied Kashmir with China
- 1965 - India fails to recapture Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, returns the modest tactical gains such as the Hajipir pass at a third party brokered Tashkent Agreement, India suffers significant losses in air-to-air combat with the Pakistan Air Force.
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1971-India Pakistan war. Results are even MORE interesting.
(a) India intervenes in Pakistan's civil war captures East Pakistan after allying with the rebels and promptly withdraws from its own territory that has seceded just 25 years earlier,
(b) India returns all prisoners of war ; exchanging 93,000 civilian and military prisoners for 600 of its own prisoners held by Pakistan,
(c) India returns 6000 sq. km of territory ( uninhabited desert) captured in Sindh but looses a crucial 100 sq km of territory, the Chambh-Jhaurian corridor in Kashmir, giving Pakistan a vital logistical link to Northern Kashmir.
(d) India signs the Simla agreement acknowledging Pakistan's control over North Western Kashmir as a Line of Control
(e) Post 1971 India loses political control of Bangladesh with Pakistan friendly governments in power. Pro India politicians like Mujeeb ur Rahman are assassinated or his daughter ousted from power, India's logistics to it's critical North Eastern states remain uncertain and Hindu minorities are allegedly harassed.
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Nuclear tests 1998 India tests nuclear devices but fails to disrupt Pakistan's quest for nuclear weapons parity. Pakistan tests nuclear weapons as a response.
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1999 Kargil War - Despite overwhelming air superiority India fails to dislodge a Pakistani special forces mountain division incursion, and loses three aircraft to ground fire. The conflict is resolved through third party (US ) intervention with no punitive consequences for Pakistan which retains control of several key peaks and outposts captured.
Post Kargil War - India fails disarm Pakistan and stop large scale weaponization of Pakistan's nuclear devices with Pakistan developing a whole range of cruise, tactical and ballistic missiles directly targeting all of India. Pakistan develops a triad (air land & sea) of launch platforms threatening India with 170 nuclear warheads.
2019 Balakot strikes , India fails to destroy so-called terrorist hubs in an airstrike, and loses two fighter jets in a dog fight resisting a Pakistani counter-strike. India loses one aircraft over Pakistani territory and the pilot is captured and paraded in front of the media sipping tea.
2021-Ceasefire. India and Pakistan sign a ceasefire stopping artillery duels and loss of civilian life across the international border.
2025- Air strikes and aftermath : India accepts a ceasefire after loosing aircraft and failing to prevent Pakistani drones and missiles from entering its airspace.
So what is exactly is a military victory and defeat of an enemy:
Example: Defeat of Japan in 1945 with the complete destruction of its armed forces and surrender by its government.
(a) Complete disarmament and limitation of any armed forces rebuilding.
(b) Ten years of occupation and government by the occupying powers controlling and permanently transforming the society.
Has India done to Pakistan what the USA did to Japan ?
No country in the world repeatedly fights a war with an enemy claiming victory and allows the adversary to develop and pose a mortal threat of nuclear annihilation.
