A defence treaty is too open. Rather, our military people should reach an understanding on the matter of defence of both two countries.Growing ties is not enough , we need closer military to military co operation , something similar to defense treaty with PAK . That is the need of the day.
I, for one, think that Pakistan's defence capability is a source of our own strength if we can grow mutual understanding and trust. Even we can send our military to take training in mountain warfare with PA troops. After all, BA was EBR which was a part of PA a few decades ago. PA troops can take also guerrilla/commando training in our marshy and green hilly terrains like it was before 1971. Our geographies are mutually supportive.