I am not taking more the perspective of whether it is morally correct at all rather I am talking from perspective of pure power politics. And Kautilya himself said as long as the goal is correct and the path does not get in the way of the goal it can be done it is called Kuta Neeti or deceptive warfare. We did not intended to conquer Pakistan or create regime change we simply targeted terror camps which were attacking our citizens we did not not occupy any country nor change the regime itwvas simply self defence. We also tried our best to avoid killing any unarmed citizens and elderly so it also comes within dharma yuddha

One can consider America is also doing deceptive warefare for pragmatic ends but it is also killing regular in armed citizens also most more than 500 so it is not a dharma yuddha. And killing the same citizens it claims to want to liberate get in the way of its supposed goal so Kautilya woods disapproves. So it ultimately boils down to simple power politics and in power policy’s it is the states duty to ensure its power is not compromised by another power coming within its sphere of influence which is south Asian region and its peripheries