You're right here. 100% agreed that we should crush all terrorism such as Maoism and Kashmiri separatist-terrorists with brute force since we've spent years trying to talk peacefully with them. But then again, we should multi-task in order to get all the matters going together.
Per capita is pretty low yes and we are very slightly higher than Pakistan.. because of corruption. But that doesn't mean we can overlook our strategic concerns. For example, we're not exactly giving these countries a nuclear shield and rather are trying to be like how Russia is with us--on a mixture of commercial and military partnership. It helps to build trust and that's most important.
You lot taught us a valuable lesson about "when heading towards development, take your friends and make new friends alongside with you".