Over the last few years, Pakistan has been prosecuting a "low cost, low intensity war" with India, backed up by threats to use nuclear weapons should India attempt retribution across the Line of Control.

The routine killings in Kashmir " and the most recent one on May 14 " have ushered in the latest crisis prompting India to shift to high gears in response to Pakistani actions. The question that arises now is whether India's strategy vis-a-vis Pakistan is inherently ambivalent; is it that India wants to avoid a confrontation?

India's war against terror has been one of the most sustained and bitter ever. But India's political response has been vacillating, ad hoc and often rhetorical with no tangible action on the ground. India's response has never raised the stakes or inflicted unacceptable costs on Pakistan for its sponsorship of terrorism.

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