Click to play videoNew Delhi: India is building up diplomatic pressure against Pakistan to force it to capture militants who organised the Mumbai terror attack last month. Diplomacy is India’s first option but the military option may well be the last if world opinion fails to move Pakistan.
India’s primary targets would be terror camps and bases in Pakistani, including those of its main espionage agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence.
Terrorist training camps run by Lashkar-e-Toiba, the group accused of training the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai, just across the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir could be the first to be targeted by the Indian military’s special forces.
Terrorist camps at a longer distance could be hit by long-range artillery. Pakistan army posts on the Line of Control could also be hit with artillery and multi-barrel rocket launchers.
But targeting the terrorist camps is not easy, as most of the training camps have reportedly moved to Waziristan. Most such terrorist camps were no more than shacks or a patch of ground for training and had no major infrastructure.
India has the option of an air strike against Lashkar's headquarters in Muridke near Lahore, but this strategy carries the risk of attrition. India could lose aircraft during the strike and the Pakistani air force could respond with retaliatory strikes. There is a risk of escalation.
The Pakistan army's key logistics installations, infrastructure like bridges on major rivers, communication hubs would also be suitable targets. These again would have to be hit from the air, but here too the risk of a war exists.
A naval blockade of the Karachi harbour is another option, but this may not be feasible at this stage as Karachi is used by the US for supplying its forces in Afghanistan.
India alleges that the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26 were trained and armed in Pakistan. Investigators say the sole terrorist who was captured alive in Mumbai has confessed that he was recruited by Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a Lashkar commander.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday announced that his Government had arrested Lakhvi and Zarrar Shah, another LeT leader.
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