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PM Modi is brilliant and Pakistan is like a headless chicken!

PM Modi is brilliant and Pakistan is like a headless chicken!

Time of India03-05-2025
Freelance journalist Ashali Varma has authored the biography of her father late Lt. Gen. PS Bhagat — 'The Victoria Cross: A Love Story'. She was executive producer with the International Commentary Service Inc, New York in 1990. She was the executive publisher of The Earth Times, New York (1992- 98). She has also worked as the editor of Choices Magazine, United Nations Development Programme. She writes on various issues including human rights, population and sustainable development. LESS ... MORE
While Pakistan is issuing weird press releases in the middle of the night and moving their tanks, troops and airforce here and there, PM Modi is inaugurating a port in Kerala and speaking at the Waves Conference in Mumbai, with the 'Mantra- Create in India, Create for the World', on how to break barriers in an interconnected world.
Having watched several Pakistani analysts and journalists who have been driven out of Pakistan, by its authoritarian Army, I am convinced that having tried diplomacy, tactical strikes etc on Pakistan, its bloated and ever greedy Armed Forces, that literally sucks the blood of its people, will kill its own people but never give up its multi billion dollar empire.
Our PM has realised this. What better way than to keep them guessing?
What better way than giving the Pakistan Army, which is running around like a headless chicken, to literally beggar their economy and keep them on high alert till it suits us. Meanwhile, their Stock Market tanks, their fuel runs short, and we prepare to hit their big assets at the right time. But first, we literally starve them of options and get them pleading to the world to stop India from an attack.
I can assure the World that PM Modi will not do any blanket bombing of Pakistan or its people. That is not the Bharatyia Way; we don't kill innocent tourists.
No, we are much more evolved- we will do to Pakistan what they said they would do to India after 1971, when they lost East Pakistan. They said they would -'Bleed us with 1000 cuts' they tried through war and terror strikes, and yes, we lost precious lives. But much to their dismay, India did not suffer economically from countries shunning us or not giving us billions of dollars of investment.
We have a government that is strong, dedicated, and has brilliant advisors.
Now we have a new Sheriff in town, as the west would say, and you can be sure he will choose the best way to bring Pakistan to its knees begging us to make peace.
But this time, we will be at peace on our terms, and it will be tough for the Rogue State of Pakistan to concede to but they will have no choice. The civilised world is against this rogue state for all the worst terrorist attacks and terrorists they exported around the world to countries that they did not even have a grudge with.
Somewhat like a Macho Country with little brains, but lots of terror training camps that sent terrorists to several countries apart from India. Most terrorists were killed, but many are locked up in high security prisons around the world.
Pakistan has really earned a place in the world as the most terror-exporting and dubious passport country in the world. It will really hurt the generals and people in high Places who have dual passports and find themselves not wanted anywhere! Except for China and North Korea, where they would be welcomed with open arms and a bit of prison training.
No, this time our strategy will be to bleed them slowly, but effectively. Put them on the FATF black list. Make them the pariahs of the world. Create so much panic and distrust that they implode on their own.
We will, when the timing is right, take down their most potent assets but we will do it when they do not expect it. Catch them by surprise. Hassle them so much that we literally drive them mad, sweating in their pants, their soldiers spent, their fuel and ammunition depleted
And their morale lost.
And we will need much less than a thousand cuts. We have our citizens behind us. We have the world behind us, barring some rogue states that support Pakistan.
All we need is patience and to carry on doing whatever we can to help Bharat.
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