SSridhar wrote:
This is the Islamic virus against which we have no buffer. To borrow from Jaswant Singh, how can 'the problem' be 'the solution' ?
By calling it the solution. That is the feeling I got listening to Sri BK.
How would Pakistan become a solution without changing a single characteristic, I do not understand. What ideological and behavioral change Indian strategists expect is not clear.
India's minimalist stand is - no cross-border terrorism (what about organic terrorism that is inspired by Jihadi tendency in the neighborhood is not taken into consideration).
But we cannot enter the negotiation with our minimalist position as it would never lead to a solution. Can we list out our position on a 1-100 scale. For example:
10 - Stop all Cross-Border Terrorism
20 - No Cross-Border Terrorism and MFN status
30 - No Cross-Border Terrorism, MFN Status, Trade corridor to CAR
50 - No Cross-Border Terrorism, MFN Status, Trade corridor to CAR & Afghanistan
70 - Settlement on JK based on current borders
80 - Pakistan moves out of PoK
90 - Pakistan renounces Islamism
100 - Pakistan joins India as an Indic state