Just as Pakistani minister Shazia Marri has been issuing nuclear threats to India, a real crisis has begun exploding in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists stormed a counter-terrorism facility, took hostages, and killed police officers in separate attacks. A long war looms with its own creation, but Pakistan has just no will.
Calls for trade ban with China impractical. Indian defense forces, diplomats capable and effective
Opposition parties’ demand for ban on trade with China is driven by political considerations and impractical. Indian defence forces and diplomats are capable of dealing with Chinese mischiefs adequately, effectively. Modi government should take opposition into confidence on sensitive national security matters, instead. Broken politics is India’s biggest strategic vulnerability.