Neither I maintained you're devil. It's you who brought in the argument that world knows India never been offensive - btw now you have agreed that India had been offensive .
Sorry!
Emmie you've misconstrued my post. I said "we have reacted in the past", I've maintained my stance that India has remained defensive so far.
It was all about HH and you took it thing long.
It was about an imaginary enemy.
LOC is word's most protected LOC, same is the true for IB.
It was not so in the past.
A multi layer security is deployed on Indian side, a strayed pigeon or camel ends up in a jail let alone a so-called terrorist.
Was not a toddler taken to the police station in Pakistan for a similar reason??
In short, let's not make a hill out of a mole.
Whenever I came across the argument that Pak violates ceasefire agreement to facilitate intruders into Indian side the movie Ronin pops up in my mind, wonder if you have watched the scene Robert Di Niro busting the hell out of fake Sean Dean's diagram of proposed ambush? Watch it you'll understand this way one would be sending intruders on a suicide mission, sandwiching assets between two firing end is sheer unprofessional and moronic. Besides what kind of tactic is it which is already known to the enemy? I am sorry to say this argument may sound great to some gullible Indians but in reality it doesn't hold any ground.
Once again this is how things used to function till not so long back.
Kashmir is the raag of choice to harp.
From your side?
Yes!
India is still backing terrorists in Pakistan, TTP BLA, anything which is anti Pak. It's India that started proxy warfare, not Pakistan so please rein in your galloping horse.
1) one there's no proof.
2) India didn't start the proxy war. Infact former Premier Benazir Bhutto had publicly acknowledged that Islamabad took a conscious decision to launch a low-intensity proxy war against India in the late 1980s to draw the world's attention to Kashmir. [
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Once again we were not the ones to harp on to Kashmir issue.
3) Pakistan used proxies in Afghanistan against the soviet. And this same straTegy was later applied in India.
4) the invaders of '47 conflict were Pakistani tribesmen.
It must be interesting for you to know the fact that till late 90s Pakistan's economy was doing much better than Indian economy. Maybe you aren't aware of the fact that Pak is war-ridden for almost a decade now, facing worst sort of militancy. Aforesaid conditions aren't economic friendly, are they? You got to admire despite all the odds Pakistan's economy is still progressing though not as fast as it should but still encouraging enough.
I already knew this part and I know it's true. In 70's and 80's, democracy was a big white elephant on the Indian economy. We made slow but steady progress.
I know Pakistan's economy has faced a set back due to terrorism and politics but I do want your economy to progress. For my own selfish reasons I want Pakistan's economy to develop because I know a peaceful neighbourhood would help India too, albeit indirectly.
Please get your facts straight, Pakistan had no nuclear ambition until India started working on nukes. Pakistan has always maintained a policy of minimum deterrence.
Why do you forget that it's Pakistan which has an ambiguous nuclear policy and that India which has a no first use policy??
Considering Indian attitude it seems quite unlikely but as they say hope for the best,
India has learnt to ignore Pakistan, and focus on the development issue.
count me in the list of those who hope for the good or better if not the best.
I trust you!