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| India needs to rethink its decades old military strategy and mull over a fresh policy vis a vis Pakistan | | meager and ineffectual responses fail to fend off enemy : Analysts ; military helicopter violates Indian airspace in Poonch sector | 
Jammu, February 21, (Scoop News)-With Pakistan’s unchanged Kashmir policy of a ‘thousand cuts’ against India, the country’s leadership has yet to come up to the expectations of masses and to devise mechanism to blunt enemy’s rhetoric effectively on their own land.
Kashmir, according well informed security analysts, is not a political issue but a military one. It (K-issue) was born out of a military conflict when tribal raiders, assisted by Pakistan’s regular army, invaded the state and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) declared a ceasefire between the two warring armies in 1947.
“The issue can be resolved only militarily and not through any other means,” they said adding “for past 70 years political efforts, dialogues, bilateral agreements like Tashkent, Shimla, Agra, Islamabad and Lahore had yielded nothing except more acrimony between the two neighbours.”
“It is the war that leads to peace and not vice versa. We are not war mongers but if a well fought war leads to a permanent resolution of a vexed issue, one should take the plunge,” they argued.
India has to rethink its decades old military strategy and mull over itself for demonstrating boldness in transborder response to Pakistan and return with premium the pang they had inflicted on Indian citizens, soldiers and others in the country, the security analysts maintained.
They said India has evenly been limiting its retribution but the responses have not fended off Pakistan so far and whatever, limited military retaliation is possible from this side on the border in Jammu and Kashmir has been undeniably meager and ineffectual.
The political leadership of the country in consultation with men in uniform has to formulate and elicit a suitable mechanism against a perilous enemy to ensure that coffins going home are wrapped in Pakistani flags rather than Indian tri colour, they asserted.
Incidentally, between 2011 and 2017, 343 soldiers had been martyred.
On February 12, Union Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, was enough candid in her statement when she repeated twice that “Pakistan will have to pay for this adventure.” She said, “I won’t set the timeline but Pakistan will have to pay for this. Giving evidence to Pakistan for all attacks including dossiers doesn’t deny us the right to respond befittingly. Giving evidence to Pakistan will strengthen our arguments,” she told media persons after visiting Sunjawan army camp.
At least six soldiers and a civilian were killed in a terrorist attack on an army camp and claimed by a Pakistan based Jaish e Mohammed (JeM) outfit. The security analysts said the situation is unendurable and the country need not to suffer in silence, as its soldiers and civilians are killed and the property damaged by terrorists who are coming from Pakistan.
Pakistan brings into play its ‘Battalion Action Teams’ (BAT) against India in simultaneity with cross border pounding by artillery rounds, mortars along Line of Control (LoC) in twin border district of Rajouri and Poonch and even fired an anti tank missile on a border out post (BOP) in Rajouri district killing four soldiers including a captain.
In Poonch sector on Wednesday, a Pakistani military helicopter hovered over 300 meters deep inside Indian airspace for nearly 10 minutes to assist its BAT in locating a target for it.
The situation is grim and unendurable and the country need not suffer in silence, as its soldiers, civilians are killed and the property damaged by armed intruders without any liability who are coming from Pakistan.
Threadbare discussions in TV studios are being broadcast on almost daily basis. Long term shifts in geopolitics and the proliferation of new technologies eroding the military dominance in the region are also talked about in these live programmes.
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