Nothing cryptic. You are trying to find meaning to what I am merely observing. Observation on the caliber of weapons and what effect they have.
We are not escalating, please. Be very clear, we always de-escalate. With overwhelming fire. We dominate LC in majority of places, save a couple here and there. The aim is to keep their military under pressure, because if they remain under pressure, we can work with GoP. GoP gets to do what it needs to. Without the sustained military pressure, diplomatic efforts will not yield results.
Please understand that while we tend to portray PA as a bunch of buffoons, they are not. Even they know that longer this plays out, the more serious the country gets into trouble.
While pointing out this aspect of imposing economic costs by sustained rates of military engagements along with a military pressure to a Pakistani member elsewhere, he was quick to counter with underlying the ability of Pakistani military to continuously match the military response. So far, so good. That is what we want, because there always will come a time, every second week or so, when supplementary budgetary support will be needed for sustaining those operations.
There are reports of civil trucks being commandeered to move troops over a span of couple of days. What is the cost? Is the cost limited merely to an increased military expenditure as the Armed Forces will be paying for those services or will it include the economic cost aggravated by sudden vacuum of civil transport for a couple of days, which shall see a dip in exchange of goods and services?
Till how long can budgetary support be sustained without tanking the economy? Yes, Pakistan Army can sustain the tempo of operations. Indeed, it was the response I was looking for, hoping to hear and wish to hear in future too.
Army is all good and fine till as such time economy is manageable, once it is not, the country becomes open to lot of problems, starting with becoming the fallguy for others with vested interest and influence. Also, in the present times, once the economy tanks, and with the persistence of fundamentalists in their society, how long before you have the perfect conditions wherein the religious extremists will take on Pakistani Government itself? It has already happened twice recently, with the TLP. That is what I meant when I said, we will fight Pakistan till the last Pakistani. We do not need to fight. They will screw themselves up.
Everything has a cost.