Pak doesn't want to mend its ways

Having received a drubbing from the US and under pressure from the international community to act against the terror perpetuating from its soil, Pakistan continues to target forward Indian positions and infiltrate terrorists into the Indian territory. The US recently stopped the aid to Pakistan but despite that it has not changed its pro-terror policies. The US now should levy heavy costs on it for perpetuating terror in India. Despite its criticism at various international forums for encouraging terrorism, it seems as if the neighbouring country is in no mood to discourage terror groups that operate from its soil. There is an emergent need for some international action against the Pak-based terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and 'their shadowy supporters'. Islamabad, however, is no mood to mend its ways. Almost every day, Indian border troops pick up the suspicious movement of terrorists across the LoC. Given its track record, Pakistan always tries to push terrorists into the Indian territory under the cover of darkness or unprovoked shelling and firing on the forward Indian posts. There is so much of international pressure on it to close down the militant training camps on its soil, but it continues to run them. It refuses to recognise that terrorism is a crime against humanity. It is, however, important to know who is behind all this and who benefits from it? Terrorists do not own banks or factories of arms and ammunition, so let us ask the real question: Who finances them, who arms them and who provides them sanctuaries? Apart from India, Afghanistan too has raised similar concerns on terror financing and safe havens. History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies, reap a bitter harvest. Pakistan is of course paying the price for creating terrorists as they have now trained their guns towards it, not sparing eve the school goers, but is still does not desist from training, financing and sheltering them. This is unfortunate for the people of Pakistan that they have got a government which do not value their lives. India on the other hand, since Independence, has attempted unprecedented paradigms of friendship with Pakistan, but it pains to note that we has got Pathankot, Uri and Nagrota terror attacks in return for these goodwill gestures.

India has always taken initiatives to resolve issues on the basis of friendship, but Pakistan has always put conditions. Pakistan has from the very beginning been denying its involvement in terror attacks on this side of the borders, but the confessional statements of Naved, Bahadur Ali and other Pak terrorists, who are in our custody, is a proof of Pakistan's complicity in cross-border terrorism. There was so much of anger in the country after the Uri terror attack in which 18 jawans had attained martyrdom.

In retaliation, India had carried out surgical strikes on the terror camps across the LoC and smashed them, killing several terrorists. India has vowed to carry out such surgical strikes in future too in case Pakistan continues to infiltrate terrorists, posting a danger to the country's internal security.