India faces major Pak terror attack

Pakistan's NSA, Nasir Janjua talked "de-escalation" with Ajit Doval last week, but at the top levels of the Indian government there is a growing belief Pakistan could retaliate against last week's surgical strikes with a big terror attack in India in the coming weeks.

According to reports, India will watch out for two things - first, whether Pakistan will cross the Uri threshold or will they stay in a low-flight zone of a continuous low intensity attacks with casualties in single digits, true to the death-by-thousand-cuts strategy.

Another key development the Indian side will watch out for is whether Pakistan army chief Gen Raheel Sharif stays on after November or retires. According to India's assessment, if the Pak general's term is extended, it would signal that Pakistan is preparing for a sustained military conflict with India, reports TNN.

What is clear is that after the September 29 surgical strikes inside PoK, the LoC is no longer sacrosanct for India. The strikes were intended to ensure that terrorists in their launch pads across the LoC in PoK, watched over by the Pakistan army, would no longer feel comfortable. That was the immediate aim.

According to the assessment reports carried out by Indian army, Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) suffered the maximum damage in the cross-LoC surgical strikes on terror launch pads.