that's the game, it's not a binary of 0 and 1, between 0 & 1, there is 0.1, 0.2 all the way to 1.
for both nations,finding space to execute respective tactical and strategic goals is the game.
if folks are interested, figuring out pakjabi's next move is worth investing time in.
being judgemental about something that has already happened is easy, figuring out what is going to happen next while staying within known terms of reference is the hard part.
There are several pathways the pakis may proceed - asymetric vs symetric and combination of both - the third scenario is most likely, making it a complicated game theory answers - i am pretty sure that projecting India-Pakistan-China kinetic angles is the most geopolitically complex scenario on the planet and ironically none of the primary players are assured to have gamed this the best - which most likey USA has done.
Having said that, there are two major pathways for this:
A: an asymetric ignition- via terrorist attack somewhere, followed by kinetic action between two nations
B: symetric ignition, since asymetric ignition has failed ( for a host of reasons too banal to get into here).
In Scenario A, we are not RAW or anywhere close to CBI even so we can only speculate what, when and where the terror attack will be, though we know priority order in terms of High value targets for Pakis to gain 'awaami backing & junoon' for - such as blowing up Jammu region ( huge H&D win for striking at heart of indian military presence), blowing up Mumbai or Delhi or a tier1 city, blowing up strategic assets like Jamnagar refinery complex, etc.
Following this, the kinetic action can take several pathways but the likeliest one is 'pak denial of involvement + predicting Indian strike & then ambushing Indian strike with varying degrees of success'.
Pak is highly unlikely to go on the offensive right after a major terror attack, since that is definitely gonna burn bridges diplomatically, financially and strategically for Pak throughout the world - even if they dont lose backing of mummy and daddy ( USA and China), they will still suffer critical hits to their economies from tertiary nations expressing ire ( UAE primary on them, KSA not far behind to complicate matters for Pakis).
So therefore a 'set up an ambush' is most likely outcome, though Pak's ability to ambush is declining by the day, since

and trials for far better strike packages are serving as a decisive checkmate against pakis, given that they dont have strategic depth.
China will not get involved on behalf of Pakistan and double-team us, except for maybe engaging in Salami slicing - at least in the foreseeable future. This is because Chinese economy isnt in good shape and India is 2nd biggest 'paymaster' of the Chinese economy in the world - the trade surplus is ultimately how China earns hard cash and India is 2nd ranked in Chinese trade surplus in the world - well over 100 Bn a year. This gap, ironically, serves as a China-block for military action, since anything more than minor salami slicing will see this 100Bn/annum disappear from Chinese economy and therefore China would have to guarantee something massive in wins to lose that income on a yearly basis, compounding over decades.
however, if China feels that India can be sufficiently distracted by Pakistan war to take a major piece of India- such as Tawang of pretty much all of Depsang, China *will* strike and not look back.
This means, from Indian PoV, we are going to keep honing the surgical strike package + engage in our own asymetric warfare with the Pakis.
In this regard, i see variations of Operation Sindoor as the new norm : India strikes- with varying degree of success, Pakistan ambushes- with varying degree of success and as long as India holds decisive missile advantage, Pakis end up bleeding more, thus inititing our red lever to shut it down, lest we get over-extended and suffer another surprise attack and crushing defeat vs China.
This brings us, to what basically pakis can do, in terms of ambushing India. So far, people are forgetting one decisive aspect of the escalation ladder where we hold all the aces - navy. we are in position to blow up ormara at will and deal Pakistan military a casualty list exceeding 5000, while suffering zero- for PAk lacks naval assets and missile assets to hit one of our CBG who's going to operate from their range limits to blow up ormara- a major PN base.
Since Ormara doesnt have any international commercial traffic like Karachi, India doesnt need to declare war and get 3rd party freight traffic out of the way to blow up PN in Karachi.
This lever, which Pakis cannot hide like they can hide PAF losses ( its only ever going to be max 30-40 PAF personnel + dozens of support staff that will die in worst case scenarios for PAF in Sindoor mk 2.0++ ones, while if Ormara gets hit coz India got mad, the casualty list will surpass several thousand military personnel alone.
By India dominating this lever and PakMil not being absolute Palestinian like duffers, India will restrict the battlespace to Air battles and arty duels and keep Pakis in check.
Pak on the other hand, will be at a qundry - they cannot ingress until they neutralize our ADS. they cannot easily neutralize our ADS because we have integrated layered radar activation systems that makes identifying our actual radar arrays extremely difficult.
So therefore, they will be forced to try and hit our jets while they are in the air launching their missiles.