The difference is that it is only till a finite time that the PA can suppress casualties. Or reversals. The creeping reversals are the worst, because you, as a soldier, know that you have suffered, but are unable to use all force required to retake your positions. What effect will be on the soldier?
Coming to the citizens. When PM Modi says we are not against people of Pakistan, read what he is not saying (those who do not support terror).
By keeping up a military pressure, the narrative of 'when the rich wage war, its the poor who die' comes to fore. Rich not being exclusively those with money, but also with power. And that is predominantly the Pakistan Armed Forces. Already rational voices are asking if the cost of supporting terror outfits is worth losing the nation over? And Pakistan is in a Catch 22. Because people need jobs, food, security, education, healthcare, extended deployment is a severe drain on economies. On Pakistan, it is devastating. A Pakistani member, rather jingoistically claimed that they can afford prolonged deployments. I pray that they do exactly that. Because every time a supplementary budget allocation is demanded, it is provided for with cuts in areas they need to focus in, critical ones. We are creating a governance vacuum without doing a single thing. What does that lead to? The fringe getting emboldened as they sense a weakness in the power centre.
What people are not concentrating on is the situation in Sindh, KPK and Baluchistan. A bleeding economy, a perpetual flow of body bags and upcoming economic sanctions (FATF is seriously not pleased) with increased tempo of operations requiring money to be spent. All creates a situation wherein the expenditure outpaces income. And the groups are active in these regions already - emboldened.
What are the sources of economic sustenance? China? They can go ahead. To Pakistanis: Sell your country. Who wins? Recall Afghanistan being the graveyard of Empires? Baluchistan adjoins it too .... I think rest need not be said.
, 2019
. Even if F-16 have been used as at that point in time complete PAF was airborne including F16s, the fact remains that Pakistan Airforce shot down two Indian jets in self defence. India can assume any type of their choice even F-16. Pakistan retains the right to use anything and everything in its legitimate self defence.
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