The Next War Between India and Pakistan: Why New Delhi’s Failure to Deter Islamabad Will Fuel Future Violence

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  1. **A Gallup Pakistan poll found that 96 percent of Pakistanis believe their country was victorious in the recent fighting. The military’s calls for national unity have momentarily drowned out public concerns over political repression and the country’s deep economic woes.**

    Pakistan is essentially an oversized military dictatorship propped up by Western aid. Despite being in 2025, the country has still failed to eradicate polio or achieve a female literacy rate above 50%. Yet, it continues to allocate ample amounts of resources to militarization and provides shelter to terrorist groups.

  2. What will deter terrorists? Nothing. Nothing ever deters a terrorist. When you give a theocratic ethnostate the sole purpose of existing to create a problem for another state, only the total dismantling of that state will produce deterrence.

  3. 95% of the Pakistani population lives on Opium, the bullshit they army feeds them. They still believe they won the 1965,1971 and 1999 wars. The other 5% (the intelligentsia and the wealthy which includes the top army brass) will bolt to US/UK/Canada/Europe at the first real sign of threat.

    Why do Pakistani higher military officials and their families have so easy access to the western nations and getting citizenship/residency there ?

    Pakistan’s biggest problem is not Kashmir and India- it is the massive secessionist movements in KPK (TTP), Balochistan (BLA) and Sindh (Sindhudesh Liberation Army). This will continue to harm any future investment in those regions- except China, who probably have buyers regret.

    Between the suspended IWT, the global isolation they’re receiving and stuck financially and strategically at the mercy of big brother, China, they’re in a for a long and tough time. This will continue until the army who will never let go of power.

  4. 96%?

    That just shows avg country populace is living in delusion. Atleast the educated ones should be questioning the government and army after war.

    But then the educated ones are living in London and Munich.

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