Till India as a state leave its current path of fascism
No mercy. No guilt about killing the enemy
Why India shells and kills Pakistani civilians must be understood in a broader concept of history ( as perceived) and the mindset of the general population in India.
The India Pakistan tensions are not merely a territorial dispute over Kashmir but a far deeper malaise. Even if the issue of Kashmir is miraculously resolved by concessions, compromises, or external mediation a far deeper grievance on the Indian side will persist till eternity or if by another miracle Pakistan ceases to exist.
Understanding the mindset can set realistic expectations of why the India Pakistan state of war will ever be resolved like East and West Germany.
The possibility of peace and coexistence between North and South Korea , or India and China, are far more realistic than any hope for peace between India and Pakistan. The Taiwan and China conflict, and Israeli Arab conflict will one day be resolved. There is no such hope in South Asia ( and that holds true for India Bangladesh as well but that is off topic).
Fed on revisionist history three generations in India have grown up with a deep sense of being wronged. Basically the mind set is based on a 1000 year history of "being wronged " and visions of a glorious past that has to be restored. Unlike even the Israeli Pakistan equation, where Pakistan supports territorial concessions to Palestinians but has no basic quarrel with Jewish people as such India's conflict with Pakistan is not about territory but the presence of Pakistan itself; specifically the people of Pakistan.
To understand this better there is a famous statement made by the then Indian Foreign Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to his Pakistani counterpart Yakub Khan.
In a meeting during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Pakistan in 1979, Yakub Khan said :
"We must discuss because Kashmir is the unfinished part of partition in 1947 and Pakistan is incomplete without Kashmir. "
To which Atal Bihari Vajpayee replied.
"India is incomplete without Pakistan. Can we discuss India and Pakistan ? "
This incident was related by Vajpayee in the Indian Parliament to a thunderous applause.
1. 90% of Indians ( secular left wing atheists excluded) look back on the previous centuries as a time of humiliation and defeat by "Muslims " ( quotes intentional) which must be avenged by eliminating vestiges of Islam left in the territory of India today. The elimination of course is classic fascist style with cultural denigration ( the "other "), economic isolation, confinement to ghettos, orchestrated pogroms and the progression to concentration camps and physical elimination. This progression to the largest ever holocaust in history is currently undergoing.
2. Going back to Vajpayee's declaration that "India is incomplete without Pakistan ". This statement is very different from China's stance on Taiwan, or South Korea's stance on North Korea ( and vice versa). Those conflicts are based on two different economic and political models, but Chinese and Korean people are considered their own by either side. This is NOT the case with India so far as Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) are concerned.
What Vajpayee meant is that "India is incomplete without the geographical territory of Pakistan. The population of this territory does not count, is not wanted, and must be driven out or eliminated to create conditions for repopulation and a complete religious demographic change. The 1000 year history must be reversed.
This can be seen in the "reversal " being implemented in Indian Administered Kashmir and the expectation is that when Pakistan Administered Kashmir is recovered then similar demographic changes can be effected there too.
3. Partition of India and the establishment of Pakistan is a deep wound in the Indian psyche, which is unlikely to ever go away The dream of a united India reverting to its glorious past is symbolized in the legacy of Mr.Nathuram Godse who assassinated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who was perceived to be speaking up for Pakistan's legal rights to share of the resources of pre-Partition India.
Per the prevailing law the secular government then in power, in India charged, arrested, tried executed Mr. Godse much to the dismay of the popular sentiment. Today Mr. Godse is a revered hero in India is honored, and remembered far more than Mr. M.K. Gandhi himself. According to his will his ashes after his cremation are to be held in an urn to be immersed in the Indus River when Pakistan ceases to exist.
72 years later Mr. Godse's urn is still preserved for the day that will reverse a 1000 years of history.
....meanwhile the shelling of civilians goes on. The killing of civilians ( "Muslims ") on the Pakistani ( and Bangladesh border) is merely an extension of the massacres committed within India. Not having the reach ( as of now) to send the killer squads directly into Pakistan the option of shelling civilians brings a sense of partial satisfaction in achieving portions the "1000 year revenge " .