Well, if you turn it into a dessert, what will Pakistan do? Come to fight you to the death. Yes, I know, India can win. But at what cost? Obviously, your government doesn't agree with you.
Every move is a cost-benefit analysis.
Turning a country into a desert is likely to be a long process, we are building the infrastructure required for it, while we have some already in place.
Governments change, times change, strategies change. Neither you nor I really know what GoI's real stance on this is, no one is going to come out in the open.
"Defeated"?
No, insurgencies are still there. You are far from winning the war.
Where did you read we have defeat all insurgencies, we have defeated those in the past, we are slowly wiping out the rest.
Do read carefully.
Let's stick to the real world. After 60 years of the similar kind of wishful thinking, Pakistan is still there.
In the real world, Pak was cut in half, so obviously, it has not been the same for 60 years.
As a world power wannabe, 60 years ago, you were talking about Pakistan threat; 60 years later, you are still talking about Pakistan threat. Strategically, you are losing more than Pakistan.
If anyone is a world power wannabe, its China; this however, is not a thread on that particular delusion.
No we have obviously moved ahead with the inevitable Paki balkanization. They lost half their land in '71, now they are struggling with Baloch and Fata; that too without India really doing anything significant. Imagine trying to use your air-force to kill your own citizens. What a retardedly desperate nation.
The day we decide to really light up Baloch as Pakis tried their best to with Kashmir in the 90s, it'd be losts of fun. You guys will run around trying to save your investments, more comedy.
No, their nuke make your 1971 victory never happen again.
Pakis could have decided to fight on in '71, they meekly surrendered, the most humiliating and largest post WWII surrender.
Nukes are a bluff. They were around during Kargil, as I said, let alone nukes, even their PAF was afraid to enter for fear of further escalation and inferiority compared to IAF at the time. The disparity has since only increased.
Your JF-17 your a poorer Mig-21 is hardly going to make any difference. The F-16 they fly was rejected by IAF.
Face facts, if you want Pak to survive, you guys need to a lot more. Get moving.