It is suggested that India’s Pakistan policy lies with the NSA and not in the South Block. It may have restored strategic balance yet on the larger canvas of the full-spectrum warfare, especially in the low-intensity domain — the dirty war — Pakistan has been rather reticent ceding space to India. When a war is dirty you cannot fight it clean. By ceding initiative to India Pakistan remains defensive, restrained and reactive. By definition then what Pakistan undertakes as she desperately seeks peace along its borders is to fight such rearguard action only which may mitigate the destructiveness of Doval’s dirty war.

Source: The Express Tribune November 22, 2020 03:45 UTC