That's the point. India was gonna forfeit the game. But Modi wants re-election and thought he could do another of his "surgical strikes" last last time. But that was on the ground and Pak claimed it never happened.
Thus, he bombed either a training camp of the cünts who tried to kill me in 2005 or a forest (depending on which side you believe) and went of to a rally of the fascist faithful.
Didn't bet on Khan not just retaliating but then, when the IAF tried to regain the initiative, them going down to a shocking 2-0 defeat.
The irony is of course that the ICC chose to screw the small cricket playing nations and go for just a one group of ten CWC because it guaranteed lots of telly cash for the Ind-Pak game.