okay,, after the afghan peace deal, what leverage you have to influence US to intervene?
the whole decision on article 370 was very well calculated and timed.. Afghan peace or no peace deal, wither way Pakistan has very little leg room in current context.
Only if some jurnals in Pakistan grow some balls and decide to do a Operation Gibraltar 2.0, this will be the new status quo ..
Pakistan's options are limitless, Pakistan has to only push hard on the diplomatic front, tactfully. Modi's gavernment has dug itself into a hole. They are desperately waiting for Pakistan to take military action. That will not ever come, because Pakistan can see Modi government quicksand it's way down.
Military action is not the answer, the brutality that India commits shall be exposed on a daily basis. Because that India is compelled to do. All Pakistan's intelligence agencies need to do is extract lots and lots of data on Kashmir atrocities. Pakistan government will expose them on a global scale. And that will sink India's reputation down the toilet.
While India loses it's credibility, it's fake economy will further get hit. They will be reduced to "services sector industry" and have to approach IMF for loans.
Meanwhile Pakistan must oversee the successful functioning of CPEC, brokering a lasting peace agreement in Afghanistan and ushering in Chinese and Russian investment to expand CPEC into Afghanistan. A measured and conservation Sino-Russian investment and guidance will allow Pakistan, Afghanistan to channel trade from the world into the Arabian Sea, through Pakistan, Afghanistan and into Central Asian Republics, Russia, China and Europe.
In essence, with no military action in Kashmir, exposure of Indian atrocities in Kashmir, diplomatic offensive by Pakistan and improving Pakistani economy would leave Modi's government in tatters, and they be voted out of power.
Of course India, in it's desperation will stage false flag incidences. These Pakistan needs to tactfully thwart. As India would (as a habit) try to use it as a pretext to it's "fantastic" surgical strikes. Each solid defense by Pakistan against such strikes by India would result in international condemnation and possibly more aircraft being shot down.
Indians claim they invented the game of chess (like everything else their ego can't handle) but Pakistan has been, is beating and will continue to out maneuver India in every aspect.