So it looks like India has finally had enough of Pakistan's FA, and is having them FO the cost of having proxy Islamic terrorist groups attack India.
After Pakistan has been funding, sheltering, and using not-really-deniable terrorist groups as proxies, the Indians have finally had enough.
AP: India-Pakistan Live: Islamabad vows retaliation after India's 'Operation Sindoor' strikes kill 26
Pakistan's latest supported terrorist group's terrorist attack in April was a step too far for India to tolerate. Pakistan had been the supplier and base for the Mumbai attacks and countless others and they've gotten away without retaliation for doing so.
Until now.
India hit terrorist training sites in Pakistan in response to the latest attack. Part of this is due to India's new more friendly relationship with the United States and both nations troubles with Islamic terrorism. The USA had long backed Pakistan over India as India was semi-involved/kinda sorta/it's complicated, in the Soviet sphere of influence, but that support has worm thin, especially as Pakistan was supporting the Taliban against us in Afghanistan.
This does up the stakes, as Pakistan and India have had open warfare before and as each side has nuclear weapons things can get out of hand unless overall deterrence is reestablished.
However, a relationship where Pakistan can continue to send terrorists over the border to attack Indian civilians without any response is no longer tenable or acceptable, nor should it have been.
Pakistan has long organized, trained, sheltered, funded, and then sent terrorist groups over to India and then said "Who, Us?" each time after an attack, and continued a low-level conflict.
India is no longer permitting that, which is a good thing and may just re-establish an overall deterrence to have Pakistan stop the continued attacks when there is a cost imposed on Pakistan for these acts.
It's a high-risk situation, but the current status quo of ignoring Pakistani responsibility for the myriad of terrorist attacks is not acceptable to India, nor should it be.
4 comments:
The problem is that the Pakistanis have a couple of large cans of Sunshine they can use...
And, being Muslim, they aren't smart enough to see where that will lead.
How surprising that the government that hid the existence of Osama Bin Laden would also fund and hide other islamic terrorists. Gee, whodathunk?
Would India be as back assward third world like Pakistan if the British had never been there?
B: True, as does India, and that's what makes it all tricky. But, the current Pakistani action of sending terrorists over to attack India and then try to claim plausible deniability isn't working, and its high time they got slapped for it.
Beans: Yep the ISI of Pakistan certainly likes to play all sides, funding and supporting the Taliban and Al Qaeda for attacks on US forces, all the while claiming to be a US ally takes a lot of nerve.
Matthew W: The Brits were in both, Pakistan gets the add bass-ackwardly nature due to being an Islamic confederation of a bunch of tribes that didn't quite get civilized enough by the Brits.
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