Terror attack a wake up call: Pulwama should prompt political class to rise above partisanship and counter proxy war on India
What Katju implies is that the political bosses on the prodding of the financial establishment in India have clearly determined that the economy is to be given priority over everything else, read retaliatory measures against Pakistan & let them wallow in their own juice as per our foreign office policy makers, with our security managers tasked with a holding operation denied any offensive role.( a year back the former NSA S.S.Menon in a conversation with Shekhar Gupta of The Print, in a televised interview shared here, hinted as much when questioned about the lack of Indian response post 26/11. After due obfuscation the way foreign Office personnel are wont to, he pointed out that in the past 3 decades or so, the only major economy to transform itself has been India with the exception of China - which did a better job & pointed out Pakistan and the journey they've undertaken in those 3 decades asking - " and where are they today?")
Hence, we will continue to see token measures against them as & when a major strike occurs with a lot of mutual back slapping & celebration - read surgical strikes.
