India must prepare for Pak endgame

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1. SS:

   This is an article by a current Member of Parliament belonging to the opposition Indian National Congress party. Instead of trying to summarise, I’ll simply quote a few lines which make it clear what consensus is developing across party lines throughout India.

   > As long as Pakistan exists as a nation where the military has a country and not a country that has a military, state-sponsored terrorism will not go away. That is the hard reality.
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   >What India has to plan for is the permanent extinction of this artificial state of play in existence since 1947, irrespective of the cost in terms of blood and treasure.
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   >**There has to be an Indian state whose natural boundaries are till the eastern bank of Indus and then the larger Pakhtunistan from its western bank, which is and was the natural political, strategic and geographical order of things through millennia.**
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   >This is the endgame that India must seriously prepare for to protect itself from this intrinsically hostile entity on our western borders. It will not happen tomorrow but definitely someday if India gets serious about dealing with this scourge once and for all.

   Even BJP has never called for a dissolution of the Pakistani state (Atal Bihari Vajpayee famously visited Meenar-e-Pakistan to enforce this view). And Congress has been a much milder party on Pakistan issues for a few decades (keep in mind that they refused to retaliate after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks). For a Congress politician to issue such a chilling call-to-action would have been unimaginable a few days ago in the current polarised political climate. Yet, views like this are emerging hour after hour, and it unshackles the armed forces and the ruling dispensation to go to whatever lengths they deem justified without having to worry about domestic blowback.

2. Authoritarians gonna Authoritarian

3. Is there any evidence that starting a major border war with unclear objectives against an enemy that may be smaller but is still sizeable and hates you in the 2020s goes well or badly?

4. an Indian MP (who i know nothing about) is writing their desire to seize half the territory of a nuclear state.  In essence a manifesto for mutual annihilation.  This also ignores the heavy evidence for the conventional strength of the defense in contemporary warfare. I think this is worth sharing because it illustrates the heights of the rhetoric and anger felt in India, but you have to ignore the direct calls to action — or at least hope they are ignored 

5. As long as India keeps kashmir under a brutal occupation, Pakistan will have groups to give weapons to.

   I’d recommend this book of essays on kashmir to those interested in their perspective:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir%3A_The_Case_for_Freedom?wprov=sfla1

   For the strange people down voting this comment:

   ” In one cluster of 50 villages, more than 2,000 extreme cases of torture were documented, any of which would kick-start an SHRC inquiry, and all of which left victims maimed and psychologically scarred. Methods included branding, electric shocks, simulated drowning, striping flesh with razor blades and piping petrol into anuses.”

   Sounds brutal to me.

   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/09/mass-graves-of-kashmir

6. lol sorry, Pakistan has nukes so he’ll have to carry out this fantasy in modded HoI4

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