Should Pakistan punish Jaish leadership for pathankot attack?

[Sa1eem]

Re: Should Pakistan punish Jaish leadership for pathankot attack?

Dear brother, I have something to say on what you wrote.

@GoldenAsif

Absolutely. These same outfits have murdered so many innocent Pakistanis. All non state actors must be crushed for attaining peace in the region.

You are right that no outfits have any right to spread Fitna and Fasad, and there should be no tolerance for them. If any Pakistani outfits are holding arms than they should be crushed … not to please anyone or any country, but to make Pakistan free from fitna, fasad, sectarian violence, religious violence, and armed terrors.

[Actually, armed terror and corruption terror, both should be crushed brutally, and probably, only army can do that, even taking into account corrupts in top bureaucracies, top judiciaries, top army officials, top police personals, and most importantly, top political leaderships].

As for Pathankot incidence, Pakistan arrested some perpetrates on suspicion charges (without any concrete proofs), but to pursue the cases, India has to give proper, convincing and concrete proofs. Once proof comes, persecution and punishment should follow (there should be no let up or excuse).

Solution 1(probably not acceptable to India at this point)
Maintain political pressure on India to hold a plebiscite in Jammu as per UN Security Council resolutions and respect the will of the people.

That would be best option … though I doubt if India would accept that easily (as you mentioned) … and as long as that option would exist, Kashmiris have every right to fight for their freedom, and their terror in India cannot be called terrorism, but war of independence what Kashmiris can fight, making their basses in Azad Kashmir or Indian occupied Kashmir, but not from Pakistan soil.

Solution 2 (the only viable solution imo and one which should be acceptable to both parties)
Declare line of control as the permanent border between the two countries with free movement of Kashmiris across the Loc.

This is obviously, not a solution even though India would like it. This step would divide families and it would be against the aspiration of most Kashmiries. Considering such as easy solution, few Pakistani politicians may think of it so that they can spread personal business in India and benefit, but I doubt such solution would be in best interest of Pakistan and Kashmiris, neither such solution would be acceptable to most Pakistanis.

Else is plain wishful thinking

Pain or no pain, wishful thinking or practical thinking, best solution was what was presented during Musharraf time … or complete independence of Kashmir as separate country.

From what I remember, some points about solution presented by President Musharraf was:

1: Make Pakistani and Indian Kashmir border as river Chanab.

or

2: Open border between Indian occupied Kashmir and Azad Kashmir, so that they have trade and cultural exchanges, that eventually could lead to United Kashmir, where Pakistan and India only have virtual control over Kashmir.
3: I am not sure, but I think Musharraf also assured India that if Unity of Kashmir materializes, than Pakistan would talk to China and Pakistan is confident that in that case, part of Kashmir under the control of China would also joins in.

I think, there was something about dividing Kashmir into three distinct region, one (Kashmir) consisting of areas where Muslims are in majority, second (Jammu) consisting of areas where Hindus are in majority and third (Ladakh) consisting of areas where Buddhists are in majority.

Denounce militancy and focus instead on human development in the region.

War is not a solution (never is)

Obviously, what you wrote above should be goal that both countries (India and Pakistan) should go for. But as we all know, for clapping we need both hands. if world was peaceful and most were thinking about the betterment of people, than there would be no war nor need of armed forces, but that is not the case. So, one should always look for peace but be prepared for war too.