The unrelenting hostility of the Pakistani state is the result of two realisations: that it has never won a war with India, and possibly never can. This hurts the self-image of the Pakistani army like nothing else, where it is assumed that Allah’s side can never lose to “infidels”. And the war it is fighting is psychic – it is about establishing the faulty logic of a state based on Islam, which needs to be in constant conflict till India is Islamised. This is why repeated defeats and setbacks do not matter. If you are fighting for an ideology, you can never give in. You have to create Death Cults to do your job covertly when the regular army is impotent to do the job.