Afghanistan’s former VP compares Operation Sindoor with Pakistan's Bunyan Ul Marsoos: 'War can't be won with IMF loans'

Afghanistan’s former VP Amrullah Saleh

Drawing a comparison between India’s Operation Sindoor and Pakistan’s Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos, former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh shared a seven-point detailed analysis of the missions.

His statement follows the ceasefire announced between India and Pakistan after 100 hours of intense conflict.

In a post on X, he also said “realsing the stalemated status or irrelevance of the UNSC”, India didn’t seek to request “sympathy from the five of the 1945”.

According to him, Operation Sindoor demonstrated a strong sense of self-confidence and real strategic autonomy and sovereignty.

“For the first time, India shredded the notion that terrorists are separate from terrorist backers and thus targeted both. The notion that certain powerful rogue officers of Pakistani State authorize terrorist attacks was also shredded. This is a new paradigm. Another type of deniability must be invented,” he said.

Highlighting Pakistan's financial fragility, Saleh also mentioned that the IMF recently approved $2.4 billion support for Pakistan under two economic programmes.

“Pakistan isn’t fit enough to finance a war but has capabilities to engage in battles. A war can't be won with IMF loans anyway,” he said.

He also said that strategic patience and cultural restraint have a limit. “That limit was tested on April 22 by the Lashkar Teyba terrorists. Perhaps they wanted what followed. They didn’t benefit from their adventure though. Perhaps they wanted to humiliate India publicly. They seem to be mentally stuck in 2008,” Saleh said.

Saleh noted the effectiveness of India's military reach, saying that “every inch of Pakistan was under reach”.

He cited Indian strikes on strategic locations such as Rawalpindi and the Nur Khan airbase, which he once considered Pakistan’s most secure. The ability to target these high-value assets, he said, showed the depth of India’s capabilities.

According to him, Pakistan lost its monopoly over Islamic Fatwa. “The Indian ulema presented a fatwa of their own to their own government. Thus, the religious dimension always exploited by Pakistan to earn sympathy from the Muslim Ummah evaporated. Deoband is located in India by the way,” he said.

He also commended India’s operational discipline, noting that in a democratic society, it is rare to maintain secrecy, but New Delhi did so with “remarkable cohesion”. Saleh said the lack of leaks or internal disruptions during the operation showed a high level of strategic maturity.

“I have seen very little or no visuals from Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos to comment on. Seemingly, it never took off the way it was propagated. The ceasefire saved Pakistan’s skin. Pakistan military leadership has made statements and claims over their own achievements, but the Indian skies remained open, flights weren’t cancelled, and I haven’t seen visuals of missiles landing in Delhi or Amritsar,” he said concluding the post on X.