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{{short description|Pakistani military doctrine}}
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'''''Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts''''' is a [[military doctrine]] followed by the [[Pakistan Armed Forces|Pakistani military]] against [[India]].<ref name="GatesScott">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMSXCwAAQBAJ&q=bleed%20india%20through%20thousand%20cuts%20kargil%20war&pg=PT134 |title=Unconventional Warfare in South Asia: Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency |last=Gates |first=Scott, Kaushik Roy |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-00540-7 |pages=Chapter 4}}</ref><ref>{{citation |first=Srini |last=Sitaraman |chapter=South Asia: Conflict, Hegemony, and Power Balancing |editor1=Kristen P. Williams |editor2=Steven E. Lobell |editor3=Neal G. Jesse |title=Beyond Great Powers and Hegemons: Why Secondary States Support, Follow, or Challenge |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQl7mPWnHlAC&pg=PA181 |year=2012 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-8110-7 |page=181}}: 'manipulating ethnosectarian conflict and domestic challenges to power across the borders to weaken Indian security through a tactic described by several analysts as "bleed India through a thousand cuts"'</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Ganguly, Deadly Impasse|2016|p=27}}: 'The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) led attack on Bombay (Mumbai) in November 2008 was emblematic of this new strategy designed to bleed India with a "war of a thousand cuts".'</ref> It consists of waging [[Proxy war|covert war]] against India using insurgents at multiple locations.<ref name="Sirrs2016">{{cite book |last1=Sirrs |first1=Owen L. |title=Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-19609-9 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S-TDAAAQBAJ&q=bhindranwale%20ISI&pg=PA167 |accessdate=7 November 2018}}</ref> According to scholar Aparna Pande, this view was put forward in various studies by the Pakistani military, particularly in its [[Staff College, Quetta]].<ref>{{harvnb|Pande, Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy|2011|loc=p. 200, footnote 103}}: Pande cites, as an example, Col. Javed Hassan, ''India: A Study in Profile'', Quetta: Services Book Club. A Study conducted for the Faculty of Research and Doctrinal Studies, Command and Staff College (1990)</ref> Peter Chalk and [[Christine Fair]] cite the former director of the [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI) explicating the strategy.<ref name="Chalk Fair">{{citation |last1=Chalk |first1=Peter |last2=Fair |first2=C. Christine |title=Lashkar-e-Tayyiba leads the Kashmiri insurgency |journal=Jane's Intelligence Review |volume=14 |number=10 |date=December 2002 |url=http://www.christinefair.net/pubs/CFair_Janes_LET.pdf}}: 'In the words of Hamid Gul, the former director general of the ISI: "We have gained a lot because of our offensive in Kashmir. This is a psychological and political offensive that is designed to make India bleed through a thousand cuts."'</ref>

In a 1965 speech to the [[UN Security Council]], [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minister]] and former [[President of Pakistan|President]] of Pakistan, declared a thousand-year war against India.{{sfn|Haqqani, Pakistan Between the Mosque and Military|2010|p=67}}<ref name="Bhutto.org" /> Reetika Sharma writes that [[Army Chief of Staff (Pakistan)|Pakistani Army Chief]] General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] gave form to Bhutto's "thousand years war" with the 'bleeding India through a thousand cuts' doctrine using covert and low-intensity warfare with militancy and infiltration.<ref name="World Politics" /> This doctrine was first attempted during the [[Punjab insurgency]] and then in [[Kashmir insurgency]] using India's [[India–Pakistan border|western border]] with Pakistan.<ref name="Dogra" /><ref name="IndiatimesDoctrine">{{cite news |author=Maninder Dabas |title=Here Are Major Long Term War Doctrines Adopted By India And Pakistan Over The Years |url=https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/with-tensions-soaring-high-once-again-here-are-major-war-doctrines-exercised-by-india-pakistan-over-the-years-262273.html |accessdate=7 November 2018 |publisher=Indiatimes |date=3 October 2016}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/13/menace-that-is-lashkar-e-taiba-pub-47512|title=The Menace That Is Lashkar-e-Taiba|last=Tellis|first=Ashley J.|date=13 March 2012|website=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]|language=en|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>

==Origins==
[[File:India administrative map 2014 PL.png|thumb|180px|A 2014 political map of India showing the relative location of [[Pakistan]] and [[Bangladesh]]]]
{{See also|Operation Fair Play}}
The origins of the strategic doctrine are attributed to [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], then a member of the military regime of the General [[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]], who declared a thousand-year war against India during his speech to the [[United Nations]] [[Security Council]] in 1965.<ref name="Bhutto.org">{{cite web |title=Speech delivered at the UN Security Council on September 22, 1965 on Kashmir Issue |url=https://www.bhutto.org/1957-1965_speech21.php |website=Bhutto.org |accessdate=14 November 2018}}</ref> His plans for the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|1971 war]] included severing the entire [[East India|eastern India]] and making it a "permanent part" of [[East Pakistan]], occupying [[Kashmir]], and turning [[East Punjab]] into a separate '[[Khalistan movement|Khalistan]]'.{{sfn|Behera, Demystifying Kashmir|2007|p=88}} After the war ended with Pakistan's own dismemberment, he laid down the doctrine of continuing the conflict by "inflicting a thousand cuts" on India.<ref name="Mohanty2014">{{citation |last=Mohanty |first=Nirode |title=Indo–US Relations: Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Nuclear Energy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13OHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 |year=2014 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1-4985-0393-8 |pages=48}}</ref> According to ''[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]]'' Bhutto declared that Pakistan's success in its 'national' goal of destruction of India would only be possible by "delivering a thousand cuts on its body politic" and not through a direct conventional war. One of the purposes of the declaration was to divert public attention from internal problems facing Pakistan.<ref name="TribuneThousand">{{cite news |author=Balbir Punj |title=A thousand cuts bleed Pakistan to death |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2014/columnists/a-thousand-cuts-bleed-pakistan-to-death.html |accessdate=13 November 2018 |publisher=The Pioneer |date=22 December 2014}}</ref>

On 5 July 1977, Bhutto was deposed by his [[Army Chief of Staff (Pakistan)|army chief]] General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia-ul-Haq]] in a [[military coup]] before being controversially tried and executed.<ref>Pakistan, Zia and after. ''Abhinav Publications''. 1989. pp. 20–35. {{ISBN|978-81-7017-253-6}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://countrystudies.us/pakistan/21.htm|title=Pakistan – Zia-ul-Haq|access-date=28 December 2007|author=Blood, Peter Blood (editor)|year=1994|website=Pakistan: A [[Library of Congress Country Studies|Country Study]]|publisher=Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress|quote= ... hanging ... Bhutto for complicity in the murder of a political opponent...}}</ref>

Zia then assumed the office of President of Pakistan in 1978 and the thousand cut policy began taking shape. After the defeat of Pakistan in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]], Pakistan was divided and [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh]] was created. The war clarified that [[Kashmir]] could no longer be taken from India by a conventional war.<ref name="Katoch">{{cite journal |last1=Katoch |first1=Dhruv C |title=Combatting Cross-Border Terrorism: Need for a Doctrinal Approach |journal=CLAWS Journal |date=2013 |issue=Winter |url=http://www.claws.in/images/journals_doc/212486728_DhruvCKatoch.pdf |accessdate=14 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-binladen-pakistan-isi-idUSTRE74408220110505|title=Special report: Why the U.S. mistrusts Pakistan's spies|last1=Allbritton|first1=Chris|date=5 May 2011|work=Reuters|access-date=2018-12-15|last2=Hosenball|first2=Mark|language=en}}</ref> Zia implemented Bhutto's "thousand years war" with 'Bleed India Through A Thousand Cuts' doctrine using covert and [[Low intensity conflict|low intensity warfare]] with militancy and infiltration.<ref name="World Politics">{{citation |last=Sharma |first=Reetika |title=India and the Dynamics of World Politics: A book on Indian Foreign Policy, Related events and International Organizations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOiXLCWUiB4C&pg=PA135 |year=2011 |publisher=Pearson Education India |isbn=978-81-317-3291-5 |page=135}}</ref><ref name="IndiatimesDoctrine" /><ref name="Dogra">{{cite book |last1=Dogra |first1=Wg Cdr C Deepak |title=Pakistan: Caught in the Whirlwind |date=2015 |publisher=Lancer Publishers LLC |isbn=978-1-940988-22-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zooCwAAQBAJ&q=pakistan%20%22thousand%20cuts%22&pg=PT273 |accessdate=14 November 2018}}</ref>

==Punjab==
{{See also|Insurgency in Punjab}}
Pakistan had been helping the [[Khalistan movement|Sikh secessionist movement]] in the [[Indian Punjab]] since the 1970s.<ref name="Kiessling">{{cite book |last1=Kiessling |first1=Hein |title=Faith, Unity, Discipline: The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-84904-863-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_cgDgAAQBAJ&q=bhindranwale%20ISI&pg=PT146 |accessdate=2 October 2018}}</ref> Since the early 1980s Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI created a special Punjab cell in its headquarters to support the militant Sikh followers of [[Bhindranwale]] and supply them with arms and ammunitions. [[Terrorist training camp|Terrorist training camps]] were set up in Pakistan at [[Lahore]] and [[Karachi]] to train the young Sikhs.<ref name="Kiessling" /> [[Hamid Gul]] (who had led ISI) had stated about [[Punjab insurgency]] that "Keeping Punjab destabilized is equivalent to the [[Pakistan Army]] having an extra division at no cost to the taxpayers."<ref name="Sirrs2016" />

==Kashmir==
{{See also|Kashmir conflict}}
After the conclusion of the [[Soviet–Afghan War]], the fighters of the [[Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen|Sunni Mujahideen]] and other [[Islamic militants]] had successfully removed the Soviet forces from Afghanistan. The military and civil government of Pakistan sought to utilize these militants in the [[Kashmir conflict]] against the [[Indian Armed Forces]] in accordance with the "thousand cuts" doctrine so as to "bleed India", using Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as a [[Mutual assured destruction|shield]].<ref name="TribuneThousand" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ctc.usma.edu/the-challenge-of-islamist-militancy-in-india/|title=The Challenge of Islamist Militancy in India|last=Staniland|first=Paul|date=15 January 2008|website=Combating Terrorism Center, [[West Point]]|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> In the 1980s cross-border terrorism started in the Kashmir region as armed and well-trained groups of terrorists were infiltrated into India through the border. Pakistan officially maintained that the terrorism in Kashmir was "freedom struggle" of [[Kashmir]]is and Pakistan only provided moral support to them. But this turned out to be inaccurate as [[Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence]] (ISI) stated in the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] that the ISI was sponsoring this support in Kashmir.<ref name="Katoch" /> Pakistan has used the [[jihad]]ist militias to conduct an [[asymmetric warfare]] with India.<ref name="Racine">{{cite journal |last1=Racine |first1=Jean-Luc |title=Post-Post-Colonial India: From Regional Power to Global Player |journal=Politique étrangère |date=2008 |volume=Hors série |issue=5 |pages=65–78 |doi=10.3917/pe.hs02.0065 |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-politique-etrangere-2008-5-page-65.htm |accessdate=14 December 2018}}</ref> The militant groups have been used not just as [[Proxy war|proxies]], but predominantly as "weapons" against India for Pakistan's "Bleed India" campaign.<ref name="Dawn_Salman">{{Cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/697593 |title=Kashmir: The lynchpin of the Afghanistan problem |last=Haqqi |first=Salman |date=2012-02-23 |work=Dawn |access-date=2018-12-27 |language=en}}</ref>

According to a general involved with the "bleed India" strategy of infiltrating jihadists into Kashmir:
{{quote|It kept 700,000 Indian troops and paramilitary forces in Kashmir at very low cost to Pakistan; at the same time, it ensured that the Indian Army could not threaten Pakistan, created enormous expenditures for India, and kept it bogged down in military and political terms.<ref>{{harvnb|Jaffrelot, The Pakistan Paradox|2015|p=453}}; {{harvnb|Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink|2012|p=62}}</ref>}}

In May 1998, India tested its nuclear weapons at [[Pokhran-II]] followed by Pakistani [[Chagai-I|nuclear tests]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/12/world/india-sets-3-nuclear-blasts-defying-a-worldwide-ban-tests-bring-a-sharp-outcry.html |title=India Sets 3 Nuclear Blasts, Defying a Worldwide Ban; Tests Bring a Sharp Outcry |last=Burns |first=John F. |date=1998-05-12 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-12-14 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Racine" /> The Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC, resulted in a geographically limited [[Kargil War]],<ref>{{Cite book |title=Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris |last=Christopher |first=Snedden |date=15 September 2015 |isbn=978-1-84904-621-3 |location=London |oclc=938003294 }}</ref> during which the [[Pakistani Foreign Secretary]] Shamshad Ahmed issued a veiled nuclear threat that, 'We will not hesitate to use any weapon in our arsenal to defend our territorial integrity.'<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/01/world/atmosphere-is-tense-as-india-and-pakistan-agree-to-talks.html |title=Atmosphere Is Tense as India and Pakistan Agree to Talks |last=Dugger |first=Celia W. |date=1999-06-01 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-12-14 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

After the [[Kargil War]] in 1999, the [[Kargil Review Committee]] came out with a report which took reference to the concept of Pakistan bleeding India. In Chapter 12, "Could Kargil Have Been Avoided?", the report said that if the "[[Siachen conflict|Siachenisation]]" of Kargil had happened prior to the war, that if troops had been stationed there all year round along a wider area, it would have resulted in huge costs "and enabled Pakistan to bleed India".<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last=Bedi|first=Rahul|date=22-28 April 2000|title=Kargil Report: More Questions Raised than Answered|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=x35|issue=17|pages=1429–1431|jstor=4409195}}</ref><ref>Kargil Review Committee (July 2000). ''[https://www.scribd.com/doc/152396717/Kargil-Review-Committee-Report-1999 From Surprise To Reckoning: The Kargil Review Committee Report]''. New Delhi. Sage Publications.{{ISBN|9780761994664}}</ref>

On 13 December 2001 a [[2001 Indian Parliament attack|terrorist attack]] occurred on the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament]] (during which twelve people, including the five terrorists who attacked the building, were killed) and the [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]] on [[2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing|1 October 2001]].<ref name="Rajesh M. Basrur">{{cite book|title=Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia: The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76721-7|page=326|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vifpWqV2WYC&pg=PA326|author=Rajesh M. Basrur|edition=1st|editor=Peter R. Lavoy|accessdate=8 August 2013|chapter=The lessons of Kargil as learned by India|date=14 December 2009}}</ref> India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups fighting Indian administered Kashmir, the [[Lashkar-e-Taiba]] and [[Jaish-e-Mohammad]], both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's [[Inter Services Intelligence|ISI]]<ref name=letjemisi>[http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917228 "Who will strike first"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205030926/http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917228 |date=5 December 2008 }}, [[The Economist]], 20 December 2001.</ref> a charge that Pakistan denied.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kashmir Militant Extremists|url=http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|publisher=Council Foreign Relations|author=Jamal Afridi|date=9 July 2009|quote=Pakistan denies any ongoing collaboration between the ISI and militants, stressing a change of course after 11 September 2001.|accessdate=4 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302144145/http://www.cfr.org/kashmir/kashmir-militant-extremists/p9135|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Perlez |first=Jane |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30pstan.html |title=Pakistan Denies Any Role in Mumbai Attacks |location=Mumbai (India);Pakistan |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 November 2008 |accessdate=2012-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105185510/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/world/asia/30pstan.html |archive-date=5 January 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/ind-d20.shtml |title=Attack on Indian parliament heightens danger of Indo-Pakistan war |publisher=Wsws.org |date=20 December 2001 |accessdate=2012-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215163045/http://wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/ind-d20.shtml |archive-date=15 December 2011 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The military buildup was initiated by India in response to the twin attacks leading to the [[2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff]] between India and Pakistan. Troops were amassed on either side of the [[Indo-Pakistani border|border]] and along the [[Line of Control]] (LoC) in the region of [[Kashmir]]. International media reported the possibility of a [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]] between the two countries and the implications of the potential conflict on the [[United States|American]]-led "[[War on Terror|Global War on Terrorism]]" in nearby [[Afghan Interim Administration|Afghanistan]]. Tensions de-escalated following international [[Diplomacy|diplomatic]] mediation which resulted in the October 2002 withdrawal of Indian<ref name=toiwithdraw>[http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 "India to withdraw troops from Pak border"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031130174834/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25384627 |date=30 November 2003 }}, [[Times of India]], 16 October 2002.</ref> and Pakistani troops<ref name=bbcwithdraw>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/2335599.stm "Pakistan to withdraw front-line troops"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714093545/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/2335599.stm |date=14 July 2018 }}, [[BBC]], 17 October 2002.</ref> from the international border.

In spite of grave provocations, the lack of military retaliation by India was seen as evidence of successful deterrence of India by Pakistan's nuclear capability.<ref name="GatesScott" /><ref name="Oxford University Press">{{cite book|last=Aziz |first=Sartaj |title=Between Dreams and Realities: Some Milestones in Pakistan's History |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Karachi, Pakistan |isbn=978-0-19-547718-4 |page=408 |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\story_9-8-2009_pg3_5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130919042907/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C08%5C09%5Cstory_9-8-2009_pg3_5 |archive-date=19 September 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Robinson" /> According to [[David A. Robinson]] the nuclear deterrence has encouraged certain Pakistani elements to further provoke India. He adds that an "asymmetric nuclear escalation posture" of Pakistan has deterred conventional military power of India and in turn has enabled Pakistan's "aggressive strategy of bleeding India by a thousand cuts with little fear of significant retaliation".<ref name="Robinson">{{Cite web |last=Robinson |first=David A. |date=2011-07-14 |title=India's Rise as a Great Power, Part Two: The Pakistan-China-India Dynamic |url=http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/indias-rise-as-a-great-power-part-two-the-pakistan-china-india-dynamic/ |website=Future Directions International |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Present==
Presently the [[Islamic fundamentalists]] in Bangladesh and Pakistan, through designated terrorist groups such as [[Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami]] (HuJI),<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://ps.au.dk/fileadmin/site_files/filer_statskundskab/subsites/cir/pdf-filer/Tankel_01.pdf|title=Lashkar-e-Taiba: From 9/11 to Mumbai|last=Tankel|first=Stephen|date=April 2009|website=ps.au.dk|publisher=International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), King's College London|page=22|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> have joined forces to carry out terrorist attacks on India.<ref name="Khullar">{{cite book |last1=Khullar |first1=Darshan |title=Pakistan Our Difficult Neighbour and India's Islamic Dimensions |date=2014 |publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |isbn=9789382652823 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QmqCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Bhutto%22%2B%22thousand%20cuts%22&pg=PA63 |accessdate=13 November 2018}}</ref> In 2015, a [[High Commission of Pakistan, New Delhi|Pakistani High Commission]] staff who was an ISI agent in Bangladesh had to be withdrawn by Pakistan after his involvement in financing of terrorism activities and [[fake Indian currency note]] racket was reported by intelligence sources. He was involved in financing of terrorist organizations [[Hizb ut-Tahir]], [[Ansarullah Bangla Team]] and [[Jamaat-e-Islami]].<ref name="star" /> In December 2015, another Pakistani diplomat, a second secretary in the High commission was withdrawn for links with [[Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh]].<ref name="thedailystarDec">{{cite news |title='Terror financing': Pak diplomat withdrawn from Bangladesh |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/%E2%80%98terror-financing%E2%80%99-pak-diplomat-withdrawn-bangladesh-191473 |accessdate=15 December 2018 |publisher=The Daily Star |date=23 December 2015}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]'' reported that arrest of Pakistani citizens in Bangladesh with fake Indian currency was a "common phenomenon".<ref name="star">{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/pakistani-diplomat-withdrawn-63000 |title=Pakistani diplomat withdrawn |date=2015-02-03 |accessdate=15 December 2018 |publisher=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> In Bangladesh, HuJI-B provides a safe zone for training as well as help in crossing the border into India.<ref name=":0" />

{{Cquote|quote=Pakistan has decided to bleed India with thousand cuts. It's the policy of Pakistan. The creation of Bangladesh, which happened with the help of India, was a very humiliating defeat for them, and they feel that this is one way of avenging that defeat. They are avenging this defeat by causing casualties to our security forces and creating mayhem amongst the people.|author=[[Chief of the Army Staff (India)|Chief of the Indian Army]] [[General officer|General]] [[Bipin Rawat]] in September 2018<ref name="PutlookRawat">{{cite news |title='Pakistan Wants To Bleed India With Thousand Cuts', Says Army Chief General Bipin Rawat |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/pakistan-wants-to-bleed-india-with-thousand-cuts-says-army-chief-general-bipin-rawat/317041 |accessdate=8 November 2018 |publisher=Outlook |date=24 September 2018}}</ref>}}

According to Pakistani commentator [[Pervez Hoodbhoy]], "Pakistan's 'thousand cuts' policy is in shambles".<ref name="Hoodbhoy_Open">{{cite news|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/views-from-pakistan/bleed-india-with-a-thousand-cuts-policy-is-in-a-shambles|title='Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts' Policy Is in a Shambles|last1=Hoodbhoy|first1=Pervez|date=14 October 2016|accessdate=7 November 2018|publisher=Open Magazine}}</ref> India was able to overcome its losses without weakening of its strength. The international community abhors [[jihad]]. Pakistan's continuation of its covert war called "Jihad in Kashmir" has caused loss of international support for Pakistan's Kashmir policy,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/pakistans-kashmir-tactics-fail-to-find-traction-with-global-powers/articleshow/54432877.cms|title=Pakistan's Kashmir tactics fail to find traction with global powers|last=Balasubramanian|first=Shyam|date=20 September 2016|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/02/problem-pakistan-foreign-policy-india-isis-160210110952659.html|title=The problem with Pakistan's foreign policy|last=Hussain|first=Tom|date=14 Feb 2016|website=Al Jazeera|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref> with every jihadist attack reducing Pakistan's [[moral high ground]].<ref name="Hoodbhoy_Open" /> At the center of the FATF vote was [[Hafiz Muhammad Saeed|Hafiz Saeed]], an internationally designated Pakistani terrorist, who India blames for various attacks in Jammu and Kashmir.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/is-pakistan-losing-its-long-standing-allies--15727|title=Is Pakistan losing its long-standing allies?|last=Hasan|first=Saad|date=6 March 2018|website=[[TRT World]]|language=en|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>

In an interview in May 2016, [[Husain Haqqani]], [[List of ambassadors of Pakistan to the United States|Pakistan's former ambassador to America]], said:<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/pakistan-sees-jihad-as-low-cost-option-to-bleed-india-haqqani-ians-interview-116051700577_1.html|title=Pakistan sees jihad as low-cost option to bleed India: Haqqani (IANS Interview)|last=[[Indo-Asian News Service]]|date=17 May 2016|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref>

{{Cquote
| quote = Pakistan sees jihad as a low cost option to bleed India. The security apparatus views terrorism as irregular warfare. Islamabad feels this is the only way to ensure some form of military parity.
| author = [[Husain Haqqani]], Pakistani diplomat in 2016
| source = via [[Business Standard]], [[Indo-Asian News Service]]
}}

==See also==
* [[Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism]]
* [[India and state-sponsored terrorism]]
* [[India–Pakistan relations]]
* [[Cold Start (military doctrine)]]

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