Is Pakistan really interested to get a grip on those terrorists training on Pakistani soil? No dear, absolutely not. They are only after the groups that are damaging USA or themselves, groups working against India still get their support.
Many here thinks that there is no policy behind Modi's assertiveness against Pakistan, but there is a clear cut policy behind our stand. Is the status quo really helping us? With this policy Pakistan can continue to send two rupees terrorists in India for cheap and keep showing the world that they are a responsible country engaged in serious talks with India to resolve Kashmir issue. But the cost of preventing such terrorism is higher for us, why should we bear that cost? To keep Kashmir? Kashmir isn't going anywhere in any case, they can't take it.
So the policy is to break the status quo in our favour and make Pakistan stand down. The aim is to raise the cost of every action Pakistan is taking to keep the Kashmir issue alive;
1. Frequent border firing will be responded with even more heavier border firing.
2. Cross-border terrorism and providing help to separatists will be countered with other methods to make sure that they are paying a higher price for continuing with their policy of terrorism against India.
Now, in the short run we will see increased tension between the two countries, there will be a couple of more violent border firings like the previous one, there will be a few more terrorist activies, Pakistan will test our resolve to continue with our new policy, and we must respond with more strength to ensure that they are the one paying the higher price, we have to convince them that we are not the one budging here. At one point they will understand that it will always be them who are paying the higher price for their action, they will budge, they have to, because they know they can't win it. That's the best way to make the enemy stand down when the enemy is not interested to reason with you.
Regarding the talk, since we have stated that we won't talk to them if they talk to the seperatists, that should be our final stand. No way we should budge from our stated position and send a signal to them that they can make us break our resolve by sending a few terrorists. If they want to talk, they have to give up their little chit chats with the separatists. We must maintain that stand till they accept our terms, that will be one step towards breaking the status quo in our favour. Remember, we have nothing to lose if talk doesn't happen, but we will gain by pushing Pakistan back from the present arrangement that suits them. In fact, I think we will prohibit them to entertain any seperatist while they are in India for any official purpose, their diplomats will be asked to leave India if they do such things, that I think is going to happen going forward.
The new government do have a policy to deal with the Kashmir issue and so far everything is on track, as the policymakers have foreseen. We should just be patient.
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