To Indians mocking the extensions and promotions given by Pakistan to its army and air chiefs, you didn’t win the war - losing 5-6 jets is not a victory by any stretch of the imagination.
Your mainstream media did such terrible ‘reporting’ - if it could be called that - and indulged in so much vicious propaganda and disinformation that your Indian audiences now don’t believe it. As for the rest of the world, they now think it’s a joke, which is what most Pakistanis used to think - except now just about everyone in the world thinks that.
As for friends and allies, even Russia didn’t come to your aid - it's busy with its war in Ukraine, plus in recent years it has cozied up to Pakistan, interacting often with its military through joint exercises. The only ally that came to your help is Israel, and that speaks volumes for your misguided and warped foreign policy since Israel is pretty much the most hated country in the world. As for Pakistan, three countries publicly express support in its favour, including two countries with among the world's most powerful militaries: China and Turkiye.
Your ‘best friend’, Donald Trump -- Modi would often refer to him as “my best friend Donald Trump” -- actually ended up again internationalising the Kashmir issue, which you worked on so hard for several years to brush under the carpet. This must have caused his 'best friend' untold embarrassment. Even your citizens are now openly questioning the whole narrative that your government is claiming as a victory over Pakistan.
The credibility of mainstream Indian media inside India has sunk to depths never seen before, and much of the outside world has stopped believing that it carries anything even remotely resembling accurate news
Your foreign minister is being roundly criticised for claiming to have told Pakistan in advance of the attack, and he refuses to answer your Leader of the Opposition when he asks a simple question: Did the Indian Air Force lose any aircraft, and if so, how many? Your mainstream media - now regularly mocked by an ever-growing number of your citizens as ‘Godi media’ is trying to salvage whatever is left of your and its reputation (and also because it’s profitability depends in large part on your own continuing in power) So it’s better to look inwards and introspect to see what went wrong and where.
Going back to the question of who emerged victorious in the conflict, India is doing its best to paint itself as the victor. However, in its quest to do that, it has done some things and its leaders have said things that may seem very confusing to a neutral observer. For instance, India continues to insist, mainly through its spokespersons and not directly by the Prime Minister or even the External Affairs Minister, that US President Donald Trump or his team had nothing to do with the ceasefire. In fact, it must have become a singularly humiliating exercise every time the US president publicly claims credit for it, as he did in his interview with Bret Baier of Fox News where he spoke on it at some length to the extent that he said the ceasefire would be one thing that he did for which he could never get enough credit for and that it was a massive achievement.
India was also quite confused. 's foreign minister, who still has a job, told an Indian news channel that India had sent a message in advance to the Pakistanis saying that they didn't want to hit any military targets but only "terrorist infrastructure" and he said that Pakistan should not have intervened and retaliated. However, in India, Prime Minister Modi was saying to his domestic audience that India would respond strongly and teach Pakistan a lesson. And again, Modi, in a nationally televised speech after the ceasefire, said that India wanted to go only after terrorists and that Pakistan should have, in fact, helped it in this - and not responded the way it did. The confusion here is obvious - Modi told his citizens that Pakistan would be taught a lesson for Pahalgam -- of course, without providing an iota of evidence - and later he and his foreign minister indicated that Pakistan didn't want to attack military targets.
Now, over ten days after the ceasefire, the headlines are that the Indonesians may be scrapping their $8.1 billion deal to buy 42 Rafale jets from France. The credibility of mainstream Indian media inside India has sunk to depths never seen before, and much of the outside world has stopped believing that it carries anything even remotely resembling accurate news. The Kashmir issue has been internationalised again, and arguably the world's most powerful individual has done it, and he also has repeatedly said that he wants India and Pakistan to resolve it once and for all and is willing to help in any way he or his government can.
So it should be clear which country won the war on that day.