kashmiri terrorists have been using satellite phones since atleast a decade . these were also used during mumbai attacks .
general feeling i get is Pakistan is capable of doing much much more chaos in the valley . only thing preventing them from pushing more thermals sights / drones / IEDs into valley is balakot 2.0 and their economy in the septic tank.
i think we are in for a world of pain , 2-3 decades down from now .
Pakistan does not actively fund and train terrorists anymore it seems like, what they’ve done is let the “Tanzeems” do their training and financing themselves and do infiltrations and attacks themselves with their own planning and Pakistan won’t do anything to them legally. How do you even define a Paki “terrorist”? Someone who’s been brainwashed to kill all Kafirs and carries a gun? All pakistanis are like that and almost every paki household has a gun. They’ve gathered so much public support that they’re considered as “good militants” in Pakistan and are like a normal religious organisation to most Pakis. So this ceasefire explains this. Pakistan right now has no/little control over their own terror factories. Their madarsas produce a lot of “employees” for these organisations which Pakis themselves supported decades back. The same fundamentalisation of the society is the reason it has created both kinds of jihadis the ones who’re attacking foreign countries like India in Jammu and Kashmir (who used to impose de-facto Sharia law in areas of J&K which Indian Army had not cleaned them of) and the ones like TTP who’ve now turned against Pakistan as they don’t believe in a man made constitution except the holy book and want to impose Nizam-e-Mustafa in Pakistan. We all saw Kafir-Kafir Shia Kafir slogans in Karachi being chanted by millions, and these are the same bunch who’re brainwashed to the core who’ve been bombing Shia mosques in Pakistan (mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and how French blasphemy case and arresting Saad Rizvi caused Tehreek-e-Labbaik to literally hold hostage the entire Pakistan for a few days and how the same TeLP burnt a Sri Lankan man alive over blasphemy accusations, we all saw a few days back that a teacher was killed because one of her student in her dreams saw the teacher committing blasphemy (literally). The amount of extremism is unparalleled in Pakistan. We all see that among the criminals in European jails Pakistanis over represent their community. They’re responsible for most of the knife attacks, fidayeen attacks, IED attacks, suicide bombings in foreign countries and for that matter in their own country. Their society has become like that, they’ve become unapologetic jihadis who think that killing people whom they disagree with is absolutely right. Which is why they sympathise with Afghan Taliban as they consider them their role models and thats why they were trending supportive hashtags and singing Nasheeds in their favour when Taliban took over. Thats why for most of the Pakis (not just Imrand Khan who accepted it on camera) Osama Bin Laden is a hero as they think because of him the “atrocious Americans” were given a taste of their own medicine. Many Pakis used to fight for Taliban as they thought it of as a holy war, same in Kashmir. Their society has become like that where Jihadis are heroes and nobel laureate scientists like Abdus Salam is worst of Kafirs just because he was a “Qadiyani”. Hatred against the Hindus and Jews is a part of their school curriculum and one can imagine what would be happening in their madarsas. Oppression against Christians is considered sacred with the excuse of “they supported the brits during British Raj over British India” of which Pakistan was once a part of, which is why you see exclusive jobs for Christians to be manual scavengers in Sindh and exclusive slums for Christians in Islamabad. The entire country has become sympathetic to fundamentalists and thats why whoever sells more “mazhab” becomes very powerful in Pakistan.
Which is why Pakistani establishment has stopped supporting (IMO) such fundamentalisation which in Pakistan is called Ziafication because it has been painful for the whole world including Pakistan, and these Tanzeems have become too strong and uncontrollable because of which Pakistan even if it wishes to can’t take action against them even if FATF and United Nations direct them to. So they under the pressure of Pakistan Terror Cos allow them to do whatever they want to do and Pakistan won’t be taking legal actions or for that matter doing anything to these terror orgs else the sympathisers of these orgs and fundamentalists will take the entire country hostage in a much worse way than Tehreek-e-Labbaik did.
My (not-so) 2 cents