As I write this, Pakistan’s move continues to lift the ladder of escalation. Civilian areas, hospitals and schools are aimed at.
Thanks to our effective defense shield, we are able to neutralize most drone and missile attacks. However, civilian deaths in J&K, Punjab and Gujarat are unacceptable. Our retaliation steps are accurate and targeted at critical military devices. Obviously, in addition to the excellent defensive shield, we have clear advantages in the war, with greater air, land and naval advantages. The Government and our heroic armed forces deserve our gratitude and praise.
The question is where to go from here? India won’t produce an inch in a war initiated by Pakistan in Pahalgam’s transparent state-sponsored terrorism. The problem is that Pakistan is not an ordinary country. It has developed into a country trapped in the delusions of its army and ISI, which jointly controls the fate of the country. It’s obviously more and more a failure state. Its prime minister is a puppet selected by Shenzhou. The election is blatant to ensure that. Its most popular leader, Imran Khan, was jailed. The economy is in chaos. The country is in debt. In fact, as someone rightly said, the only job of the country’s finance minister is how to borrow money to serve the existing debt. Its recent small bail from the IMF can only be a short-term probation, as the country’s economic fundamentals remain irresistible.
Second, the country’s leadership has been in the bed of terrorist networks for a long time, and it’s not aware of the way back to normal. Rationality usually opposes paranoia. When shooting the shots, there is little hope that rationality and balance can return.
Given the iron grip of the Army-Islamic Island, the Pakistani people lost their voice. Army Chief Asim Munir is the Army’s fatigued mullah. Therefore, we cannot expect organized terrorist networks as national expansions and will no longer exist. The only option left is to disable them to the point where they stop operating effectively. This must be our ultimate goal.
In view of this, it is crucial that we have been responsible for narratives from now on, actively controlling it, rather than being forced to react every time. For a long time we did nothing but bent our muscles or seek the world’s restraint and “good behavior” certificate. The record goes without saying. In 1999, when there was a verifiable invasion on the border of Kargil, we eventually managed to evacuate the invaders – apparently from the Pakistani army, but in terms of the lives of hundreds of young officials and military personnel, the lives of hundreds of young officials and military personnel are large because the lives of the invaders are inhabited on high-level superiority and can be easily targeted at our brave army personnel. Any other country, seeing the number of coffins arrived every day, landed on parachute forces throughout the LOC and sealed the supply line to the invaders.
In 2001, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (Let) even attacked the Indian Parliament. We did nothing but to the border mass forces. In 2008, the Mumbai attack occurred (26/11), killing 166 innocent Indians. Likewise, while there is no doubt that the reprehensible attack was orchestrated by the Pakistani army and the ISI, we have not taken retaliatory action. In 2016, when Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM) attacked Uri and killed 19 soldiers, we finally had a surgical strike. And, in 2019, after the Pulwama attack, we responded to the Balakot bombing, which shows that India has enough willingness to say enough.
But all of this is a reaction. Now we have to be the masters of the narrative. Each ceasefire violation (nearly 5,000 in Pakistan in 2020) must be double-stopped, causing even more serious punishment, including invasion POK. Furthermore, we must bring the battle into Pakistani territory. We have two powerful weapons that can do this. The first is the right step to put the 1960 Indus Water Treaty Agreement on the Way so that we can control the West River (Indus, Jhelum and Chenab) into Pakistan.
The treaty is too generous to make myths from violations of the provisions mentioned in the clause. Even if perception gets the ground – when we close the Sluice gate, the sudden drop in Chenab waters to Pakistan – India can use this effective weapon and can also cause panic at the border, as 25% of Pakistan’s GDP depends on agriculture. While we should speed up infrastructure to affect this destruction, even if real-time data is not shared with Pakistan on the river can be severely dislocated.
Secondly, it is time for us to respond to Pakistan’s relentless support for terrorism by returning to Bal Luchistan. Further Balkan waits in Pakistan are waiting to happen. It just needs an organized push from our side. This is not to prove a secret subversion of one country to another. But at some point, if this is the ruthless policy of the enemy state against India,
India must in its own self-interest – especially for the interests of a world seeking to fight international terrorism, where Pakistan is the epicenter – do its best to weaken and destroy this malignant tumor.
The cumulative effect of all our measures should be to connect the Pakistani people with the Army-Islamic International, which is a one-handed dealing with the pitiful situation in Pakistan today. When farmers start to worry about the availability of water, when ordinary people know they are passive victims of wars that do not serve their interests, they may have the potential to resist only by fighting for the protection of the interests and fueling the ego of the general and his ongoing terrorists.
Unless Pakistan’s “deep state” is weakened or eliminated, there can be no lasting peace. Towards this goal, from now on, Pakistan should be forced to respond to our work. Not the other way around.
