Obviously they were ready if it wasn't for abhinandan crashing in PoK we could have counteract ready. It's the reason why abhinandan was returned to defuse the situation. Anybody with half a brain cell understands why more action wouldn't be rewarded...
Since when life of one men start defining course of wars? Just imagine how serious objective of all this military action was if danger to one live can offtrack whole process.
Should we cease our intelligence wings to get back Kulbhushan?