"Not really, if they are only attacking Pakistani targets, where's the risk to the US? Let's be honest, the rest of the 40 don't matter."
Don't joke around. Indian subterfuge aimed at Pakistan from Afghanistan invites retaliation which endangers afghans, aid workers, ISAF, and others. Neither the afghans nor the rest of ISAF and the world community would tolerate such from India.
Most of the world community can see Pakistan's desperate attempts to equivocate such to rationalize your own proxies. Nobody misses that such claims about the TTP only come LONG after sanctuary was an established issue to this insurgency. After all, the TTP were only formed in December 2007. Sanctuary has been available to Haqqani, Omar, OBL, and Hekmatyar since December 2001.
Pakistan fully understands that any argument against PREDATOR, for instance is null as it either asserts no functional control over FATAville or is fully complicit in the activities of these men in sanctuary.
WHAT MAKES MATTERS WORSE, though, is that proxy armies go BEYOND sanctuary. Pakistan's own citizen militias such as Maulvi Nazir's men or Hafez Gul Bahadur also make war on Afghanistan. What rationalizes this travesty?
"They are in the Indian consulates?"
Well then, if so, they aren't very big and there are only four of them as there are only four consulates-Herat, Mazur-I-Sharif, Jalalabad, and Kandahar. Two of those consulates are about as far away from Pakistan as one can be while in Afghanistan. All of them are in the exact same cities as the Pakistani consulates. No more. No less.
Should those Pakistani consulates receive the same scrutiny or are their activities on behalf of Pakistan's desired goal of strategic depth above closer inspection?
Silly.
OTOH, there's a vast network of camps and training facilities being confirmed daily by your own army that stretches from Bajaur south to Balochistan. Nearly institutional in its permanence and supplemented by a ready supply of soldiers from the nearly 20,000 madrassahs and vast afghan refugee camps on your lands.
The engine of proxy war roars a bit louder in FATA than in the four afghan consulates of the Indian government.
"KSA has its ties with anti-Shia forces, but never has there been any evidence against TTP. KSA has no interest to make an enemy of Pakistan, the relations between the two countries are pretty good."
You are in Dubai. You should know better than to suggest such. The KSA won't EVER be found funding the taliban. OTOH, they've no need with an extensive and sophisticated network of wealthy, private, wahabbist donors throughout the KSA and the emirates-many with close connections to the leadership of those states. They've every interest in either promoting salafism into Pakistan and Afghanistan or in deflecting the same away from the emirates and the KSA.
"How do you figure? Pakistan stuck in battle with the militants is less of a threat to India. India has everything to gain."
No. India can make only an incremental contribution over and beyond the already considerable home-grown mayhem you experience. The TTP have ready access to multiple sources of money and weapons. They have no need to trade their allegiances away so cheaply and don't endorse any of India's ambitions. India risks too much with it's relationship with Afghanistan and others chancing being caught and ejected from Afghanistan for very little tangible mayhem.
Cost great. Gain small. Risk high. No brainer to stay away. India is playing to its strengths in Afghanistan- solid rapport with the N.A. and a decisive foreign aid disparity over Pakistan.
India realizes this is no game. De-stabilizing a nuclear-armed neighbor whose hatred of India is known far and wide risks self-immolation. Doing so from the lands of another risks them as well.
Finally, at this point India is firmly aware that Pakistan is screaming loud and wide. If there was any truth to the matter, you've driven it deep underground before uncovering it adequately.
Not smart as Pakistan's accumulated arguments have led nowhere with anybody at this point. No evidence. Not sure Pakistan cares though so long as your own population believes sufficient to justify the myths behind strategic depth and imminent threat.
Thanks.
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