Integrated battle groups of the Indian army have only one chance and thats the only chance , if they are to attack and capture desired targets inside Pakistan they must get it right the first time . They have a trump card in their hand which is the element of surprise.
On the other hand we have well prepared to fight this type of battle off quite well during Azam-e Nau 3 & 60 day long High Mark 2010. Both maneuvers were the biggest in Pakistan's history , Navy has done Shamsheer e behr to chip in their role.
We are going to give India the taste of its own medicine by fighting off a coordinated attack initiated by all three services of Indian military establishment by a joint & unprecedented response by all three services of the Pakistan military.
On the ground we have advantage of swift deployment and weapons systems ie Nasr , A-100 , Panters , M-109 Howitzers , SH-01 which provides massive fire power and damaging capability with versatile warheads and high accuracy.Its just a matter of time when the army will have to opt for WS-02 long range guided rocket system which will add another pixele to the picture.
This firepower and not to mention Infantry , spec ops , and mechanized units in a coordination can thwart the Integrated battle groups attack , the only problem would be right placement and early warning where our all time reliable ISI & other Early warning indicators and assets will come into play.
Once a warning is received , the air force , air defense will take charge and destroy any invading air crafts . For that matter assets like F-16s and new long range SAM systems ie MBDA Spada 2000+ , FT-2000 ARM , HQ-18 , HQ-09 , KS-01 will be the key.
What must be remembered is that this doctrine offers a limited but highly organized show of force giving a swift thrust in Pakistan's territory which means that the Indian high command is not sending its all assets at once given the fact that Pakistan can mobilize all of its assets way quicker than the Indian military as seen in 2000.
It also indicates that the IBGs would be backed by Indian air force , maybe MKI's which have a time gap of 1 minute/launch or more which means that launching all required MKIs in the air will give PAF enough time to put its assets in the air.
These IBGs would be short in numbers but highly equipped and trained , so would be the air force - they won't use mass amount of a/c in order to maintain their element of surprise - but it also is a weakness where Pakistan will capitalize by out-gunning those IBGs and IAF- fighters through unprecedented and disproportionate use of force.
The bottom line is , the Cold start though a smart doctrine will achieve little and lose more as the survival and coordination of the segments of the force put together would be vital to the mission which means that one hit by Pakistan military in the right spot will be a mission abort for instance if IBGs are backed by 100 IAF air crafts & PAF destroys -50-60 of them it will translate into all men in those IBGs getting annihilated and the other assets with indian IBGs wont be able to complete their task on their own while taking a massive toll from the ground and the air.
-------Regards: Aeronaut
