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St op baying f or blood
15 January 2013
After this dastardly act, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday, there cant be business as usual with
Pakistan. Dr. Singhs tired words and his governments dreadful decision to postpone the start of visa-free
travel to India by senior citizens from Pakistan suggest the relentless political attacks on his Pakistan policy are
taking a toll. This is not good news. It is entirely true that the beheading of Indian soldiers on the Line of Control
was a despicable act that must be condemned. It must also be candidly admitted, though, that Pakistan has not
had a monopoly of wrong-doing in this case. It was only in March that Defence Minister A.K. Antony informed
Parliament of Indian protests against Pakistani construction along the Line of Control.
Now, no less than Indias Chief of Army Staff Bikram Singh has confirmed reports in The Hindu that India, too, was
doing exactly the same thing. It is pointless to ask who cast the first stone. The need now is to strengthen the
restraint regime on the LoC. Few spectacles have been as unedifying as the contemptible baying of warmongers
these past days most of it, it bears mention, emanating from TV studios located at a safe distance from the
nearest bullet. It is hard not to contrast Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swarajs ugly calls for 10 Pakistani
soldiers to be beheaded in retaliation with the studied restraint of General Singh. No one who has seen war
casually calls for the blood of soldiers to be shed or believes they can predict, with any certainty, what the
consequences of war will be.
Four propositions must be clearly understood. First, ever since General Parvez Ashfaq Kayani took office as
Pakistans army chief in November 2007, his covert services and armed forces have engaged in a carefully
calibrated escalation of hostilities hoping to roll back the dtente initiated in 2003, but also seeking not to invite
international condemnation. Second, India has few military options to address this situation. The potential costs of
war, and the risk of nuclear confrontation, far outweigh those of the low-grade conflict India now faces. India has
covert and conventional means at its disposal which have been exercised and could be exercised to greater
effect. However, precipitating a crisis serves the interests of Pakistans generals not Indians. Third, denying visas
to elderly Pakistanis or stopping hockey players from participating in Indian tournaments will not make our borders
or our civilians safer. This is the behaviour of a spoilt child, not a strategic actor. Fourth, real gains have been
made since 2003, not the least a ceasefire and de-intensification of cross-border terrorism which has saved the
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lives of thousands of Indian soldiers. Nothing ought to be done to jeopardise this. Not every malaise has a cure;
some can only be managed better or worse, and certainly not through indiscriminate blood-letting. Indias
relationship with Pakistan is one of them.

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