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I agree this is a site for music, but music is the last thing on my mind at the moment, here I forward an article with out of box solution for Pakistan sponsored terrorism:
long article, excerpts posted:
One such strategy that will work is an economic counter-escalation strategy that will reverse the asymmetric situation, i.e. that will raise the cost to Pakistan by several orders of magnitude without raising the cost for India. This can be achieved by two simple yet bold steps that can be very quickly taken by the Government of India - and the taking of which lies completely within our Government's legal power.
STEP A: The Government of India passes a resolution to declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism unless within three months it turns over to India the leaders and top level teams of the all terrorist organizations and supporting underworld terrorist organizations who have been operating against India and who are being hosted in Pakistan. In advance of passing such a resolution the Government of India should put in to the public domain sufficient legal evidence to prove beyond doubt the complicity in anti-India terrorist acts of the accused Pakistani organizations and their ISI sponsors.
STEP B: If after three months the required action is not taken by Pakistan - for whatever reasons / excuses - then the Government of India should pass a law that requires all companies operating in or having their offices operating in India to display within three months on their product packages and customer-facing documents a prominent one line declaration stating "Has Business with Pakistan"… if they or any of their parent/subsidiary/ sister companies continue to either sell in or source from Pakistan. This new law should also require companies to certify in writing within three months to the Government of India their compliance status with respect to this law, but it would not penalize any of the non-compliant companies operationally or financially. Then let India's public and industry decide whether they wish to do business with a company that retains business dealings with a country which is a state sponsor of terrorism against India. This will result in many of the world's companies having to choose between India and Pakistan. For those that chose the latter - India may not want them anyway. India's citizens and business community will wholeheartedly back such strong legislation. A billion people nation and a trillion dollar economy will thus speak forcefully in one voice to Pakistan and to all the companies in the world who continue to deal with Pakistan.
When Pakistan's economy starts to collapse as a result of many companies starting to pull out in response to the above two steps by India, the well-lined pockets of its military-intelligen ce leadership who have been sponsoring anti-India terrorism will also start to get emptied. As a result they will have just two options left: (i) see Pakistan implode economically destroying both their personal wealth and source of future income, or (ii) comply, i.e. hand over to India the leaders of its terrorist organizations and permanently dismantle its terrorist infrastructure.
The cost to India of applying this strategy will be minimal and this will not be in breach of any international laws. However the costs to Pakistan of continuing to sponsor its terrorism against India will rapidly become unbearable as a result of the above steps.
As Indians we see Pakistan's citizens as recently (albeit sadly and violently) estranged brothers and sisters. We wish them well and do not wish them harm. It seems that even the new Government of Pakistan offers genuine goodwill towards India. But so long as Pakistan's real rulers - the army and the ISI - are hell bent on waging a unending and escalating terrorist war that is burning our country, destroying our industry and murdering our innocent citizens and honoured guests, well then, the citizens of India expect the Government of India to hit back hard, hit back quickly, hit back smartly and hit back with the desired effect.
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