Pakistan Army accepted this long ago that they cannot compete with India owing to her superior resources. But that being said, Pakistan Army is not going to compromise on principals and let India dictate the terms against Pakistan. Pakistan is not going to accept the status that Nepal or Bhutan have accepted against India. Pakistan Army will continue to maintain enough strength to smash any Indian Military Adventure and maintain the capability to strike deep inside India. It will not pack up and disband as our learned colleague @
vsdoc advocates
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notorious_eagle
I'm a learned colleague? That's a new one.
I am afraid that the bad blood that caused the formation of Pakistan has only become more toxic over the last 65 years.
Having got what they wanted, one would have thought the Muslims of Pakistan would have been satisfied.
Not so.
The primary bone that has stuck permanently in their craw is that they bear the legacy of the failure of Islam in the Indian sub-continent ..... in swamping the ancient Indian civilization and its ancient faith, Hinduism.
That sentiment has only got worse over the decades with one military defeat after the other lending huge body blows to the edifice of martial Islam over the land and faith and believers it believed it once ruled.
What has not helped is that India cleaved Pakistan into two at a time and in a manner of its choosing.
Khalistan failed. Kashmir failed.
And Pakistan descended deeper and deeper into the pit of religious fundamentalism it sought to breed as a weapon against India ..... as it now turned its fangs inwards on itself.
In such a scenario India is sadly reconciled to the fact that regardless of the sentiments of the mango people, true peace is never going to be possible with Pakistan.
Not as long as Pakistan can wage war.
We will just have to keep pushing Pakistan deeper into the abyss it dug for itself, until it no longer can sustain the machinery and cost of war.
But not over the edge where it cannot police its dogs of war.
Its a fine balance that India has sought to maintain these past 40 years, as 1971 permanently closed any still open doors of rapprochement and return.
True peace between India and Pakistan now will only come when one is no longer able to wage war.
Cheers, Doc