Pakistan’s widely read newspaper Dawn pointed out a major fault line in the country’s much-publicised anti-militancy Zarb-i-Azb (Sharp Strike) operation. It said: “Anti-state militants are being fought, while anti-Afghan or anti-India militants thrive on Pakistani soil.”It is a sort of reawakening of Pakistani society that has found its civilian and military leadership providing excuses to shelter terrorists. People are unhappy with the way the military leadership is engaged in selective anti-terrorism fight. This could prove dangerous. Pakistan has seen consequences of its own doing vis-à-vis militancy. History doesn’t need to be recalled in full to substantiate how terrorism was fostered and exported to other countries.Terrorism can never be dealt with on selective basis. Pakistan should have known it from American experience. The most powerful country is paying a price for having launched its anti-terrorist operations in a selective manner, ignoring wider impact on its society. Today the world is having more anti-American voices than days when Samuel Huntington wrote “The Clash of Civilizations”. Had he been alive today, the resonance of his classical work would have been titled differently – it is getting bigger than the clash of civilizations. The Orlando mass murder is still making headlines.By keeping and patronising the terrorists active on its soil may help Pakistan to gain billions of dollars from the United States to show that its fight against terrorism is on and it needs money for that. America has its own compulsions. Pakistan’s location, adjoining Afghanistan, Iran, India and China, makes it one of America’s most important allies. But now it is becoming dangerous because of its half-hearted war on terror.Pakistan should realise that it is her soldiers’ blood that is being shed – 490 of them have died in the two years of Zarb-i-Azb operation, which was launched after a devastating attack at Karachi airport in June 2014. The Pakistani army has used all kinds of weaponry, air bombardment to neutralise 3,500 militants. It was a war within Pakistan, and it was Pakistan’s own creation, for it first patronised terrorists, then started using them to bleed Afghanistan and India, and finally the monster of terrorism turned against it as well.Even today, there are questions: why is the Pakistan army not acting against the Haqqani network. Americans, who have been doling out money (recent one is the $800 million package), want to know what happened to the deadliest network wrecking the peace prospects in Afghanistan. There are questions about 26/11 and Pathankot too. Pakistan continues to live in denial for reasons best known to it.Some strategists have a blinkered view when it comes to India. It seems that Pakistan suffers from delusion of Pakistan becoming western Bangladesh. India has better things to do. It is not a state in war with itself. Pakistan is.Terrorism is not a friend of anyone. How long can militants be used as a foreign policy tool? This strategy has not paid off in Afghanistan. It is bound to fail in other places too. The cross-border firings on Afghan-Pak border have revealed this truth. If Pakistan thinks that by shedding blood of innocent Kashmiris or exploiting them has brought any change in number of people in love with Pakistan, it needs to hear the private conversations in Kashmiri homes where the brutal ways of Pakistani terrorists are denounced with contempt and anger. No one wants violence. Kashmiri society is sick of violence. It has realised that counter-insurgency fault lines are there because of sponsored terrorism from across the border. Their real sense of insecurity is born out of that.In 2004, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had declared, “No boundaries will be changed.” Pakistan should have heard this message loud and clear. Nothing will change. Pakistan will add to miseries of its own people and that of the people whose territory it is eyeing for water resources to irrigate fields of Western Punjab. If Pakistan was really a heaven, Kashmiri youth who had gone there in the 1990s would not have been making desperate attempts and taking risks to come back to their homes in the Valley.