I would beg to disagree with you last para. For me , US is sounding as good as like enemy for India.
look , US and China do not want India to arrive on world platform as military power.If you could see , US clinched trade deal with China recently and they have broader understanding amongst them to bog down India in PAK. Same Game US plays with India when it comes to relation with China to bog them down.
So in nutshell , US uses PAK for India and India for China. Now here knowing fully well , China plays along US , because they know , India is difficult to handle and supporting US hyphenating PAK-INDIA is in their interest. For us it is very difficult situation because knowing fully well that both the superpowers are against us , we have to navigate our ship .
So subjugating PAK permanently only will nullify our one front and we would be able to tackle China. our Path to world stage will only come when China accepts us as equal partner in Asia and works with us. Till that time we have to fight this WAR.
Enter Russia wild-card,who is the biggest wildcard on the deck- both in terms of scope and power and in terms of swinging this contest one way or another.
Ofcourse,Russia is incapacitated now in its own struggle over Ukraine, so Russian help over Pakis related to the two super-powers and the rock paper scissors aspect of it wont come for another generation.
For now, India has to focus on doing that it holds the power to do on paper : fuck with its geographical neighbour and make it full spectral war to cause collapse from within.
That is the wildcard power WE possess - we have ethnic and political and financial ability to infiltrate their society and cause collapse from within, within a generation too, while fanning the flames across their western frontier.
On this count, we hold all the theoretical aces in the deck, as no amount of money and technology can stop a country from breaking from within and fragmenting, if its ethnically and geographically linked neighbour of greater power can successfully fuck with it.
Ultimately, Chinese or americans cant tell us and pakis apart on a good day, so they cant tell our agents apart. That gives us operational tempo control against their money.
In short, they can help prop up Pakistan from top-down aid, but we can burn pakistan to the ground, from grounds-up stage.