(Source: Reuters)NO idea has failed India more spectacularly in its relations with Pakistan than ‘strategic restraint’. So they have promoted hatred, violence and war by all sorts of cowardly means for decades, and in India, our leaders have repeatedly taken the path of ‘strategic restraint’. But perhaps not fully understanding how often ‘strategic restraint’ has been interpreted by Pakistan’s military rulers as cowardice. So Pakistan’s military men, who see India as an ‘existential threat’, treat with utter disdain the strategic restraint of our political leaders. Meanwhile, I have no hesitation in admitting that last week’s ‘surgical strikes’ pleased me enormously and I hope they signal the end of strategic restraint.

Source: Indian Express October 01, 2016 19:07 UTC