If that is the case, then India needs to figure out a way to work Pakistan off that cliff. Sure, from a moral perspective, it might be the onus of Pakistan to climb down the ladder by itself, but from a realist perspective, India is the neighbor with more at stake, and so, no matter how unfortunate it might be, India will have to start the positive cycle, so to speak.
...sigh. So basically--if CSD fails, tons of blood is shed. If it succeeds, it might lead to nuclear war OR it would break up Pakistan, risking nukes landing into the hands of Taliban extremists (and which would probably blow it up in Mumbai harbor). This is the magical comprehensive strategy that is supposed to increase Indian national security? Does anyone not see the madness in such a plan?
The point of national security is not to kill the citizens of your opponents, but preserve the lives of your own. Getting a big stick works at doing this insofar as the other team is rational. If it's not, then you need to drop that and adopt a different approach, but the posters here seem to think that only getting a bigger stick will solve the problem. It won't.