For India and Pakistan there is a moral there somewhere in the latest Israeli strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza that killed 195 Palestinians. That’s what the future would look like pretty soon were Pakistan to continue its patronage of terror groups and India to launch retaliatory strikes. It is a war without an end. People would keep dying on both sides in a perpetual cycle of violence. For some it might satisfy their blood lust but it will never resolve the core issues that tear apart the neighbors.
If Pakistan wants to be taken seriously as a nation-state in control of its own destiny it has to engage in national introspection. Six decades may not be a long time in the life of a nation but they are certainly enough to have at least formed clearly defined contours of a civil society which has begun to address its existential problems with maturity. On that front and many others Pakistan has clearly failed its own people with criminal nonchalance. No one is suggesting that India has solved its million problems. Far from it. But at least it has shown a trajectory of progress and promise which has given it remarkable international weight and credibility.
Rather than leveraging their civilizational affinities the two remain trapped into a street brawl. India has significantly disengaged itself from that bracketed context with Pakistan. Pakistan has not.