RIP to the brave souls.
Cross border ops required massive intelligence gathering which is currently lacked at our side. We need to act smartly and put in place durable mechanism to prevent any cross border incursion.
I have been saying all along that Fence the damn border, which ever the cost may be. If we just secure Durand line even if we have to spend million of dollers, the returning benefits are many folds. There are vulnerable posts along South/North Waziristan, which are easy targets for terrorists across the border. One solution is to establish posts within Afghanistan at commanding heights. Other solution is to establish a "no entry zone" ahead of our posts. This zone could be establish by laying mines.
Other thing is and that the posts we have set up along these borders are mud/stone bunkers with wood branches serving as roof. These cant stand RPGs and HMG, which terrorists are equipped with.
For God sake, please built Standard reinforced concrete bunkers. Proper posts where your 10-20 soldiers can live. Please start thinking those soldiers as human and not cannon fodders. One concrete bunker will cost 1 millions rupees at most? Heck your PM house daily expense is 40 lac rupees (PKR 4 million).
And these bunkers once built will remain there even after 50 years. Why cant we? Why dont we?
I have no answer to these question. Please save lives of our soldiers.