You will not beat Pakistan until you understand the nature of its army. The Pakistan Army does not owe allegiance to Pakistan. It owes its allegiance to itself in part, and Islam in part. To it, the people of Pakistan are raw-material, and only a partial source of funds. They're like crop in the fields for the army. The Pakistani taxpayer is not the army's sole source of monies. It's foreign military aid. So it's only natural that the army's loyalties are split.
The Pakistan Army is a great consultancy for the west to use in this region. The politics of this entire region can be shaped by making the Pakistan army behave in a certain way. It has its fingers in not just India's security, but also its politics, media and film-industry. It can conduct psy-ops against India.
India's approach to beating Pakistan army on the battlefield, and capturing a few agents or saboteurs will not help. Nor will blind retaliation against Pakistan. Pak Army wants India to punish Pakistani people, so it feeds the India boogeyman in Pakistan. Our approach should be to destablize the Pakistani Army. Bathe key people in money, keep yourself informed, destabilize and sabotage the organization. The rest of Pakistan will fall in place.
Pakistan Army wants you to think that it's wielding nukes for the entire Sunni-Islamic world. For the reasons I mentioned before, it won't be deterred by a mere threat of retaliation against Pakistan, in the event of a nuclear strike. India must extend the threat of retaliation against the entire Sunni-Islamic world, in the event of a Pakistani first-strike (Israel's policy), while cultivating better economic ties with them than Pakistan can offer. That will not only isolate Pakistan from the rest of the Sunni-Islamic world, but also make it pressurize Pakistan to keep off India's back.
The conflict between India and Pakistan is not a military conflict over disputed territory. It's a clash of two civilizations, and ideologies. India will win that conflict the moment it realizes the nature of the conflict. Pakistan has waged a war on the idea of India. Our retaliation must be equally wholesome. We have more resources on our side.
An excellent analysis of the circumstances on the whole and I would but like to add a few of my new paise to this.
1. Pakistan army is a mercenary force on hire and rent to anyone and everyone. For them, and the rest of that den of terroristan, every day is a victory? Why? Because they are still alive, they are still intact and more still they are still in the position to "stand up" to Indian state, the idea of India and the the Indian civilisation. Unfair is many things, but she has some interesting and surprisingly precise insights into the Paki mindset (as they say hell hath no fury as a woman scorned). Paki army simply lives to fight another day. That they exist and have not disappeared despite all the wars and thumpings, is a victory in their twisted bent of mind.
2. They are not for sale, but up for auction to the highest bidder. We have more resources than the Pakis but we do not have enough to take on the resources of their "fourfathers"- US, KSA, China and UK. We maybe able to buy some infleunce by lavishing money, but others can spend more and the Paki gernail will happily take all the money he can from all quarters- momin and kuffar and still be the same beast, as we have seen with US, China and even UK. Buying influence is a non-starter.
3. Paki establishment craves for parity and recognition from India and the rest of the world as some sort of equals and thus, the desperate attempts for hyphenation and tit-for-tat. For a long time their ideological fourfathers encouraged this, but having being bitten frequently by the rabid hound they raised to go after their "frenemies", the fourfathers are running out of patience and more importantly money to keep the as they say in Tamizh "
Chor-naai" forcussed on India and away from them. Consequently the wish to but cannot let go of the leash. So they'e started to ignore the cretin, in different ways. Recent engagements with India point to this- Pakistan has not been mentioned even once and this is a kick in the balls for their echhanddee and thus, desperate attempts by their establishment and media to find and invent relevance where there is none-
"Pakistan sneaks into Indo-US resolution"
"Bad Sharif's China visit a message to India"
"Obama privately pressed Modi for resumption of talks with Pakistan,we have reliably learned"
On top of it what hurts them even more is that Indian government is in no mood or hurry to resume talks with them. There are no track I, thoo or free parleys where even a modicum of hint has gone out from GoI that talks are under consideration. GoI has made its stance clear- talk to us or the "Hurry rats" and when you do come to the table, do not bring any knife else we'll rain down the whole shastraalaya on you. This is baffling the Pakis no end- how dare that eevil yeendu not talk to us a equals, how dare he set the agenda for engagement when that is our prerogative as the rightful heirs of those who rules these fabled lands for 1000 years. Moreover, their attempts to stoke terror- terror boat, bomb blasts, J&K are being thwarted, modules are being busted left, right and centre, even if much is away from the public eye.
4. The country is crumbling within, with little economy, little food, an exploding population- recent census gave an average household size of 6 that is 4 children per family. They'll grow up in a crowded country with little economic prospects and therefore readily available for hire for anything. Recently on BRF one knowledgeable rakshak elucidated that Pakistan's installed electricity generation capacity is close to 23 GW, while actual output is closer to 10-12 GW- this is barely enough to meet the peak power requirements of Delhi and Mumbai combined, let alone power industries and homes across the nation.
What the the economic aspects for such a nation? I think one may find that Beggary, Thievery and Thuggery remains the only recourse for someone who does not wish to change, lives in delusions and denials and is consumed with self-loathing and hatred of the other for simply being better.