What is a realistic retaliation? Something is definitely coming
Vicious debates and a "decapitation strike"/"Brutal response"/"Befitting Reply"/"Outrage in Parliament".
Army will then go and kill some militants with 15 bullets in a mag and a dream in it (and still lose men to that in the process).
People will circulate the sick videos of their women folk crying, some will make some bullshit phonk edits of Indian Army and we will calm down till another attack six months later.
Maybe the attack will be in Kashmir, maybe in Jammu. Hell, it may even be in Punjab. The thrill in life is not knowing where you're going to get killed from. That's what great stories and maggot food are made of.
We are great mathematicians. We know that 1-1=0.
So losing 30 or so men is utterly fine because you risk losing so many more in war.
So what if someone might argue that losing a 1000 men to a cause is better than tens to no cause? Go pay your taxes.
If you wanna travel, Kashmir's beautiful this time of the year.
Hell, your wife or child may even get a government job if you go far enough into the woods and media hypes your death enough.
No guarantee of free lunches though. Maybe Amit Shah will visit your take off point to svarg too. Won't you feel honoured?