Surely we have a right to choose our friends?

On 26 February Indian Air Force (IAF) planes crossed the Line of Control (LOC) and bombed a Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. This was in retaliation for an attack on a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on 14 February by a suicide bomber in Pulwama in Kashmir, killing over 40 soldiers. Experts in India are convinced that the attack was planned and supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which nurtures terrorist groups within Pakistan, to be used against India, just as it supports and supplies the Haqqani Network which attack US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, as well as the Taliban which mounts regular terrorist attacks within Afghanistan. As is its habit, Pakistan started a propaganda blitz, claiming it had shot down an Indian Air Force Sukhoi and that it had chased an Indian submarine out of its territorial waters. The US is having to look into end-user agreement with Pakistan regarding its use of F16 aircraft to bomb targets in India. The pilot of a F16 Shahzaz Ud Din, shot down by an Indian MIG, was beaten to death by a Pakistani mob which mistook him for an Indian. Pakistan claimed that the remains of a missile, which was of US origin, was supplied to India by Taiwan. Taiwan immediately denied that the missile belonged to it as the number on it did not match any it possessed. India has displayed the remains of the missile to prove that it was fired by a Pakistani plane. While denying that Indian planes hit any of their targets Pakistan has stopped journalists from visiting the site, presumably to remove all dead bodies and clean up any evidence of bomb damage. In an effort to ridicule India it has registered a case against unnamed Indian pilots for destroying 19 trees. The US has reduced validity of visas for Pakistani citizens and has also cut off aid, after providing $33 billion in aid since 2004 to eliminate the Taliban. Satellite images obtained by Reuters were analysed by western experts who concluded that all the IAF bombs missed their targets. Western countries have always supported Pakistan against India, knowing that it is the source of most of the terrorism in the world, but opposition politicians in India have also questioned the effectiveness of the strike because they fear Prime Minister Modi getting an advantage in the general election to be held in April. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been most outspoken in her cynicism. For us, citizens of India it is very worrying and extremely distasteful. There is no need for slanging. The West maybe against India but it cannot force us to choose our friends. Cut off all relations with Pakistan, withdraw all diplomats, throw out all Pakistanis, build a wall along the border, monitor the border with satellites and drones and shoot at anything that moves. It will save lives of soldiers and citizens.