... this was confined to support for the Naga and Mizo insurgencies. Then it was extended to the Sikh extremist groups in the Punjab and the Kashmiri extremists in the Jammu and Kashmir regions. Whereas in the pre-1990 period, Pakistan's tactical inventory consisted primarily of training and arms assistance to indigenous insurgent and terrorist groups in India. Pakistan looks upon terrorism as a political tool to frustrate India's aspirations of emerging as a major regional power, as an equalizer to neutralize the superiority of the Indian armed forces over their Pakistani counterparts, and as a para-military weapon to keep the Indian army bleeding and preoccupied with internal security duties, in the hope that this would ultimately contribute to the over-all weakening and break-up of India. UN Resolutions and declarations of various member-states of the international community recognize State-sponsored terrorism as indirect aggression. The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) training of Dal ...

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