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Are more Surgical Strikes needed?

On 29th September this year, India celebrated the first anniversary of Surgical Strikes.

Last year it was a defining moment when all elements of national power- political, diplomatic, economic, cultural and most importantly military power were synergised and for the first time, India gave a befitting response to Pakistan. Surgical strikes which were necessary to give moral ascendancy to Indian Army after Uri attack also called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff.

But the question arises!

How viable is it to use surgical strikes again or can we use them again at all? The answer to this lies in understanding the mechanism of proxy war by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
While Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a non-observing Muslim, with his perfidy and callousness used Islam and Two Nation theory to create Pakistan but his fledgeling state lacked the ideological depth because he had conspired for a theocratic state over the corpses of lakhs of innocents.
Thus, Pakistan created two narratives that- it is the fortress of Islam, hence, somehow responsible for the leadership of Muslim world; And that Kashmir is an integral part of Pakistan.
After failed attempts in 1947 and 1965 to win Kashmir and debacle in 1971 war, fortress of Islam was dilapidated and Pakistan was back to from where it started, stripped of any narrative and devoid of vision as a nation.
The vacuum thus created was soon hijacked by Pakistani Army and the ideology which was benign until was now eulogized in Madrasas, schools, universities by Zia Ul Haq’s regime. Concocted lies were peddled as history and theology were taught in place of science.
A whole generation of Pakistan was served a cocktail of Wahhabi Islam and today the Sunni majority of Pakistan hates Shias, Hindus, Ahmadis, Christian and everything there is to hate. Today an average Pakistani will take pains to explains how he somehow has roots in Saudi Arabia, not in the Indian subcontinent, and his schooling in the martial prowess of its ‘Quam’ refuses to accept the defeat it suffered in all of its four wars with India.
After Soviet tanks rolled in Afghanistan, ISI was put to work by America’s CIA and millions of dollars started flowing in to raise a mercenary force which came to be known as ‘Taliban’ later. The war became Jihad and fighters became Mujahedeen. But these fighters had to be supplied with additional manpower and for this, the madrasas in Northwest Frontier region were put to work. This was the beginning of Jihad and Kalashnikov culture in Pakistan. Since Zia Ul Haq’s days, Pakistan’s India policy is run by a bunch of kooks in army and ISI who simply can’t get over the fact that they lost half their country in 1971 after a humiliating defeat in hands of Indian Army.

For Pakistan- ‘Revenge’ remains the driving force, regardless of the way to achieve it.

At the same time, General Haq devised this policy of a ‘death by thousand cuts’, a perfect blend of pathological hatred towards Hindu India and religious intransigence and with the experience they gained from the Afghan war and the money they syphoned off from America started fuelling unrest in Kashmir.
Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, the same year in which Kashmir valley exploded. While Kashmir’s struggle for independence, though minuscule in scale, was still political in nature but was already fuming with the state’s rigging of elections in 1987 but was yet to require an Islamic dimension with militancy and terrorism at the forefront.
Afghan model was repeated in Kashmir with much success by Pakistan and what followed was a conflict that continues to this date. Most of the terrorists killed in Kashmir are Punjabi speaking and some of them are of African nationalities also. Pakistan does this proxy war at the cost diminutive of what a regular army would require.
Kargil War happened after Lahore Bus service In 1998, Parliament attacks happened after Agra Summit in 2001, Even after Mumbai attacks Manmohan Singh admitted that RAW was destabilizing Pakistan in Sharm El Sheikh but Pakistan still didn’t act on JuD chief Hafiz Saeed. Narendra Modi crash landed at Nawaz Sharif daughter’s wedding in 2015 and then Pathankot happened followed by Uri attack in 2015.

Every time the peace process started it was sabotaged by the deep state of Pakistan, a vicious cabal of ISI and Military. Today Pakistan’s army and ISI is judiciary, executive and stock exchange- all rolled into one. In the past, it has toppled democratically elected governments and hanged its leaders. It runs Pakistan’s foreign policy.
Fauzi Foundation, run by its officers on plum postings after retirement, is a USD 661 million conglomerate listed in Karachi Stock exchange. It beheads our soldiers and mutilates their bodies on LOC. Pakistani army came out of the British Army like ours but soon changed its motto to “Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah” (English translation: “Faith, Piety, Struggle in the way of God”). Today it has got what it desired, ‘barbarism of middle East and greed of east. Therefore it can’t afford to have peace in Kashmir and normalised relationships with India because that would mean an existential crisis for it. It derives its legitimacy from Kashmir and hatred against India. No promise of water, education, electricity and roads hold as much allure as Kashmir in Pakistan.

Surgical Strikes: Current Viability

And India obsesses over the facts that these nut cases, having broken their country once, may oversee it’s disintegration again but with Pakistan having nuclear weapons it’s a horrible prospect. So Pakistan harms us and we placate it. Therefore India has to inflict pain on Pakistan to change the strategic calculus in Islamabad and importance, Surgical Strikes can’t be overemphasized in such a scenario. Therefore India’s response to Pakistan proxy war stands vindicated but it would be very immature on our part to threaten Surgical Strikes for every terrorist attack we suffer but it would be worse if decide that it was a one-off thing and can’t be done again.

राज्‍यों से जुड़ी हर खबर और देश-दुनिया की ताजा खबरें पढ़ने के लिए नार्थ इंडिया स्टेट्समैन से जुड़े। साथ ही लेटेस्‍ट हि‍न्‍दी खबर से जुड़ी जानकारी के लि‍ये हमारा ऐप को डाउनलोड करें।

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