I am very much surprised by the lack of strategic perspective shown by many peoples here. Peoples are too emotional and they forget what is our strategic aim.
Our strategic aim is to increase the cost of supporting terrorism for Pakistan. Untill today, they arm and train terrorists and send them to India, kill our soldiers and that's it, zero reprications on Pakistan and the terrorist head and it's infrastructure will be safe and sound Inside Pakistan.
That status quo of decades has completely changed. Cost of terror attacks on Pakistan have increased exponentially. For Pakistan, Feb 16th and Feb 26th are two entirely different nights. One was an ordinary day and other is not.
We bombed terror infrastructure, deep inside Pakistan. This have a huge cost on Pakistani state. The freedom they enjoyed for decades to arm and train terrorists inside their country is questioned and the entire terror project is under constant pre emptive strikes from India.
Now, what Pakistan is trying to do here is trying to increase the cost of targeting Pakistani terror facilities by India. Otherwise it will be an open season on Pakistani terror facilities in the future. Everything they are doing is to increasing the stakes to a make sure that India won't do this kind of strikes again.
Pakistan sent a strike package to extract some cost on India for attacking their terror facilities. They lost 1 f-16 and we lost a mig-21. Is that what peoples are bitching about? If you forgot your strategic objective after one aerial engagement, which by the way is in our favour or a draw at worst is pathetic.
At the end of the day, cost of terrorism just increased exponentially for Pakistan. Now Pakistan have more to think about before sending terrorists to India. All we need to do is continue this policy of extracting a cost from Pakistan repeatedly for supporting terrorism. The cost of this flare-up for India is minimum compared to Pakistan.
What need to be done
1) Continue the policy of targeting terrorists and their infrastructure inside Pakistan. Let's change the focus of issues between India and Pakistan to terrorist support of Pakistan.
2) The next steps of escalation is pre-emptive strikes. Even though we. Called this strike a premptive, it is not. If Pakistan didn't show any signs of evening in on terrorists and shut down terror camps, we need to launch pre-emptive strikes. Shake it off what comes after and repeat.
I am not a Modi supporter. But I am fairly satisfied with the way things are progressing. May be its because I wasn't workshiping him as a new god

. If I see him continuing this policy of striking terrorists inside Pakistan, both as a retaliation and as pre-emptive strikes, I would say that government handled things well.