The Pakistan Army is unlikely to change its assessment of the threat from India despite heavy demands on its troops to provide flood relief while also fighting militants, a senior security official said.

The Wall Street Journal said this month Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had decided – for the first time in the country’s history – that militants had overtaken India as the greatest threat to national security. But the security official suggested this was a misinterpretation of the stance of the Pakistan Army, which views the threat from militants and India in very different ways, rather than comparing them against each other.

“These are two mutually exclusive threats. The magnitude, the type, is quite different. One is an internal threat which is insidious, difficult to quantify. It is a clear and present danger. This is a very serious threat,” he said. “The other is a conventional threat. What has India done, politically and militarily, for this threat to have been reduced?”

Another official said the threat from India had if anything increased into both a conventional and unconventional threat, as it used its presence in Afghanistan to support those fighting against the Pakistani state in its western border regions.
India denies accusations by Islamabad that it backs rebels in Balochistan. With flooding which has uprooted some 6 million people further destabilising a country already battling militants, the WSJ report raised the possibility the Pakistan Army might revise its assessment of the threat from its much bigger neighbour. The Nation News

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