[Dog Gone]

I don't take the comments about a Pakistani first strike too seriously. I'm sure some people there hate India enough to engage in what would effectively be a suicidal gesture, but they aren't the ones in control of the nukes.

I think India could conquer Pakistan, although not without a devastating nuclear exchange as the cost. But if it did, it wouldn't be able to govern it. The Pakistanis are probably the most heavily-armed citizens on the planet, and Indian troops would never be safe there.

I sympathize with the Indian position. The attacks in Kashmir are unacceptable. But if they're bad in Kashmir, just think what they'd be like if India occupied all or part of Pakistan itself.

[crystalk]

India could, if it wished, in a matter of weeks conquer the whole of Pakistan by conventional warfare, and set up a puppet state there like they did in Bangladesh.