Everything you ask for is there in the interview with Vikram Sood.
There is a difference between what an ex-intel chief turned public intellectual is allowed to say & what random people like me are allowed to say. What Mr. Sood says can be viewed as the official position of the GoI. There is every reason for him to be circumspect while commenting on Pakistan.
When indians amplify this message on all social media that RAW is openly killing pakistanis inside Pakistan, Pakistanis will invariably pick it up, whether its true or false. This message is then amplified by their media, which creates unnecessary pressure on Pak army to explain the deaths. They already have their hands full with Imran Khan. You are giving them the ammunition to distract from that clusterfck.
This is a bit of a flight of fancy, no? Pakistani miliary will be forced into accountability because random Indians are posting about something. Since when does the Pak army explain themselves to their people?
Besides, distracting from a clusterfck doesn't remove/solve the clusterfck. It only delays the solution.
Our country has more than enough fault-lines to exploit. Caste, religion were the usual tools. Now, linguistic & ethnic divisions are also being amplified, especially with social media.
I know all this, but my question was which division of this country widens when we gloat about Pakistan?
Cuz in my experience disliking Pakistan has been a great unifier for our people. Irrespective of caste or creed, people generally dislike Pakistan.
You are over-estimating GoI's capabilities and under-estimating pak's capabilities.
I think in the recent past we have over-estimated Pakistan's capabilities & under-estimated our own. This led to a situation where they could sponsor one terrorist attack after the other on us with impunity. Our meek response allowed them that impunity.
India & Pakistan are in a state of proxy war with each other. This is not a new development; this has been happening since the end of the 1st Indo-Pak war in 1948. Since then, this proxy war has eventually transformed into a full spectrum conflict. Everything from trade, economy, water sharing, information, media, diplomacy, intelligence, cricket, visas, etc. are all part of this conflict. There has been occasional breakout of this proxy/cold war into a conventional war. When the conventional war ends the proxy war resumes.
In my view this was an inevitable conflict, bound to happen no matter what. If India wasn't partitioned, instead of Indo-Pak wars we would have Indian civil wars. This is an ideological conflict & it is unlikely to end the same way conventional wars end. It's more likely that this will end in an agonizingly slow wrangling positional battle.
This is how I see the situation with Pakistan & Bangladesh. Since it is a positional battle, it is not enough that we grow our economy. We must grow faster than them. It is not enough that we have peace at home, they shouldn't have peace at home. It is not enough that we improve our relationship with country X, Y & Z. We must actively try to ruin their relationship with country X, Y & Z.
Enforce a zero-sum situation wherever we can win. Wherever we cannot win yet, co-operate & build up capability.
