Baibers_1260
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No problem,You are banking a lot on the goodwill and assumptive proportional retaliation from India.. what if India decides to bomb GHQ or other infra. With a 10x budget, you can safely assume that India would have few multiple times more of bombs and missiles than Pakistan..
We can rebuild our GHQ and will already vacate this area prior to our demolishing Somnath once again. The weath that India had when Somnath was demolished was 1000 times the wealth of the "invaders ". So a 10x budget doesn't help protect your temples unless you use 80% of your air defenses to protect all the 30,000 temples you have designated as national heritage treasures.
By the way our Bangladeshi brethren ( your erst-while allies) have started a temple demolition exercise in earnest. The Bangladeshi GHQ is so far ( repeat "so far" is untouched). When the LTTE blasted the ancient Nallur Khandaswamy Temple in Jaffna Sri Lanka, then India didn't touch the LTTE "GHQ" or whatever passed for the LTTE command and control centers.
A bit of history..
Temples and houses of worship are irrelevant military targets but an important psychological target in a general war. In the history of the Indian subcontinent, destruction of houses of worship going back to 400-600 AD was common. The mutual destruction of Jain, Buddhist and Hindu temples during change in the religious orientation of the kingdoms particularly in South India was quite intense and horrific. These were not military but psychological targets. Temples were frequently used to store large quantities of gold, silver, and precious stones. These were obviously looted by the victors. Much later the "invaders" from the North West found the secret hoards of wealth in a few temples and these were selectively destroyed with a cosmetic veneer of anti-idolatry religious fervor.
Coming to our era.. demolitions of houses of worship, specifically mosques is a huge morale booster in the psyche of the war-crazed propaganda fed Indian masses as well as the armed forces.
A summary:
Striking a few temples in the era today will hugely damage the morale of the current enemy armed forces, with its highly religious mindset.
In an earlier era such as in the pre-Kargil war era, strikes on temples ( inadvertent like in Dwarka 1965) had absolutely no effect on the Indian Armed Forces morale.
At that time Pakistan was facing an extremely patriotic united and secular enemy which was much harder to demoralize by isolated strikes on houses of worship and consequently much harder to overall defeat.
Today Pakistan is in a much better position. The Indian Armed Forces perceive they are fighting a religious war, not a nationalist patriotic one.
An additional bonus.. destruction of key temples inside India wil likely fuel a communal holocaust as retaliation against Indian Muslims on a much greater scale than the retaliation against Sikhs for the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh bodyguards. Apart from seriously affecting India's law and order situation with mob rule and 80% of the cities under curfew, India's ugly image in the world of a communal fascist state will be exposed.
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