DeansMusings

  This post has been written because all discussions on terrorism in India – which is Pakistan sponsored, focus on losses on the Indian side. A justification for Pakistan continuing state sponsored terrorism is that for a relatively small cost, India spends a large amount on security and is taking unsustainable losses, and will eventually lose its will to retain Kashmir. As I pointed out in my article on Kashmir – 5 years after article 370 revocation, Kashmir is in fact at its most peaceful in years and it is actually terrorists that are taking unsustainable losses.  https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2024/07/kashmir-5-years-after-article-370.html   What has been ignored is Pakistan’s own terrorism problem, which unlike India, is home grown and less publicised. Terrorism in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is worse than Kashmir.    Terrorist Incidents Civilians killed Security forces killed Terrori...

In the summer of 2020, India faced the biggest threat to its national security in decades, though that’s little known, let alone understood.   The background to this goes back to Aug 19, when India abrogated article 370. It was a bold decision by the govt of India, because the feeling in political circles was that the Kashmir insurgency, which was largely under control, after a flare up in 2016, would increase sharply, with the support of the local population angered by the abrogation of article 370. For Pakistan it was almost tantamount to an act of war by India. Not reacting to it would expose the Pak establishment (the army and by extension the militant groups they control) as toothless.   A very heavy presence of paramilitary forces and an increased army presence along the LOC, prevented any increase in the insurgency in the first few months. In the beginning of 2020, incidents of firing across the LOC, by Pakistan increased to over double the 2018 figure. 2020 recorded ...