India’s Cold Start doctrine can’t ensure easy win against Pak

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ Indian Army’s “Cold Start” doctrine to seize control of Pakistani territory might be intimidating but will not lead to a “landslide” victory against nuclear-armed Pakistan, state-run Chinese media has said. “Both India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed countries.

Even if the Cold Start strategy sounds intimidating and there is indeed a gap between the two powers’ military might, it does not mean that New Delhi can easily win a landslide victory against Islamabad,”.

“The truth is, Pakistan has considerable strength to safeguard its sovereignty and its nuclear weapons should not be ignored,” it said. The daily said that given the uncertainties of US’ future policy toward South Asia, the India-Pakistan peace process, which is already frozen, is now in a “critically fragile state”.

“Against this backdrop, any remark that might threaten the delicate peace between the two nations from the Indian military authority will undoubtedly trigger a strong reaction in Pakistan,” it said. “Since the 1998 nuclear tests in India and Pakistan, it is quite common to hear such war of words like the latest one.