The surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) on seven terrorist launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of last Thursday by the Indian Army has established India in the league of the US and Israel, and also exploded the myth that nuke-armed rogue Pakistan cannot be dealt with through conventional arms and devices.

So far, America and Israel alone have a reputation to chase and punish their enemies, whichever part of the world they may hide in. Starting with the hot pursuit of Naga rebels across Myanmar border recently, India has now crossed the LoC in Kashmir to avenge the Uri attack which had left 18 Indian soldiers dead and several others injured.

Pakistan has continued with its policy of bleeding India to death through a thousand cuts till date. Obviously, the strife-torn Islamic nation was under the illusion that India would not dare to retaliate against its nuclear neighbour. But that’s now history.

One need not take Pakistan’s denial of surgical strikes by India seriously. The Islamic nation has lived in denial right from the start. Just two months after its birth, the Pakistani army, along with fanatic tribals, attacked Kashmir valley but did not own it for years. Nor was the 1971 Bangladesh massacre accepted. Kargil is just a recent example of denial and deceit.

With this surgical strike, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has at last openly given up attempting to resume negotiations with his counterpart in Pakistan at any level, after noticing that every resumption is followed by disruption from the military-mullah combine in that country.

The conclusion was quite evident long time back: power in Pakistan is no longer held by the elected political establishment. Actual power is held by the military-mullah combination as former Pakistani diplomat and academic Husain Haqqani has traced in some detail in his widely acclaimed book Between the Mosque and the Military. The place of a Prime Minister in the Islamabad environment is as passive as can be imagined. It is the military-mullah combine that is calling the shots there.

By the logic of events in Indo-Pak relationship between 1999 (when Kargil happened) and now, there should have been no hope whatever of peaceful relationship with Pakistan as long as mullah-military combine called the shots there against an unstable civilian government.

Haqqani’s book was followed by several academic studies of Westerners on the power structure there. All of them without exception came to the same conclusion—the whole foundational existence of Pakistan as the various leaders there see it, is based on targeting India, a prospering democracy increasingly winning the respect and regard of the global community and seen as a huge destination for investment and innovation.

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