The Uri attack that left 17 soldiers dead has triggered calls for India to shed strategic restraint and impose costs on Pakistan for engineering such strikes. What is this much-derided strategic restraint that India has been practising? Why has Delhi stuck to strategic restraint despite several provocations, including the 2008 Mumbai strike? This constituency is impatient and asks -- why a rising India, a powerful India, a bigger India, and an India which is on the “right side” should cave in to Pakistan. The aggressive response to ceasefire violations along the LoC in 2014 was in keeping with that line.

Source: Hindustan Times September 18, 2016 14:26 UTC