This 'traditional' non-state actor apparatus has become the face of the new age of warfare, where states fight for their interests via mercenaries instead of fighting directly. India has developed a logistical, training and economic apparatus to recruit, indoctrinate, train and transport Uzbek and Tajik militants into Pakistan via Afghanistan.
There are two options to dismantle this apparatus. A - Use of proxies to fight the proxies with an aim to dismantle the Indian ability to fight a covert war against Pakistan while using Afghan soil.
B - Indulge in an overt campaign, mount air strikes, special ops and project state power to try and attain the same goal.
The later would bring another enemy to us in the shape of Afghan govt as they won't like Pakistani military bombing hideouts on their soil, nor would India tolerate a direct action on their cronies. It will also earn us international condemnation on a scale we cannot deter.
Prime Minister Modi has promised in his elections to intensify covert war on Pakistan. If i am reading correctly this is now India's foreign policy towards Pakistan. In order to deter them, we must first strike at their foremost capability to wage a covert war in Pakistan which lies in Afghanistan and beyond that in Tajikistan, namely in Fakhror.
Pakistan has to protect itself and there is no better protection than going on an offensive. With Modi stating this open endedly as well as the former Chiefs of the Indian Army admitting to a state backed covert war on Pakistan, we would be doomed to not take it seriously. Use of proxies is important for any state in a condition like ours. Unless im presented with a more pragmatic solution,in which India is no longer putting its state power behind the goal to dismember our nation via a covert war, i am in favour of using similar methods.
The objective is to destroy the machine India has built on our eastern flank. Operation ZarbeAzb focuses on that aspect as well. Once we have reduced TTP's abilities to wage a terror campaign, the areas would be secured through consistent military presence. For this purpose the FC is being trained to replace the Army so we can move the Army back to the Indian border.
Once this is achieved, Pakistan would have to compartmentalize its counter covert war strategy by boosting support for Indian based proxies which do not share border with us. Indian strategy is to support groups that cannot reach India, we need to show them that its not true, hoping that they will learn a few things.
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