What this should result in is an explicit directive from PMO to all Armed Forces and Intel services to set fire in PoK using any and all means necessary. Usage of Special Forces (and any non-state actors we can muster) to disrupt and destroy critical enabling infrastructure of PA in PoK, kill commanders causing disruption in ranks of fighting formations, etc., which should be immediately followed by a conventional attack on positions by airpower, and then IA should move in with infantry & support to hold the territory and all airfields, discouraging PA from launching a counteroffensive, and being in a position to defeat it if it does come.
The concept of using military force as a tool (and a continuation/alternative for diplomacy) for meeting our interests is not understood by our leadership.
Such attacks should only be nothing but an EXCUSE for us to launch an attack toward meeting our strategic goals, never the CAUSE. We should never be in a position to require someone to do something against us before we think of doing something to them with the objective of advancing our interests. And therein lies our problem. The fact that PMO or GoI at large is only willing to use the military as a tool of retaliation for terror attacks, instead of setting a goal (like the capture of PoK) and using all overt & covert means the country has at disposal toward meeting that goal, shows where we have a fundamental flaw in our thought-process.
Attacks like this offer opportune moments where it is possible for us to initiate all-out hostilities (which will inevitably result in great loss of civilian life on both sides) and be in a position to justify our actions in the UN and to the wider world (anyone who thinks this is not important is thinking in only three dimensions). But ofcourse, to be in a position to utilize such incidents as a moral high ground and justification for own public, would require us to first be prepared for a campaign in the first place. Issuing knee-jerk directives to the conventional Armed Forces is a recipe for disaster.
