India, May 31 -- Thus, Pakistan has tried to contain the region primarily through the use of kinetic containment, financial patronage, mass detentions, and internet shutdowns. The State's collapse of authority is clear from the complete failure of its own security apparatus to protect its most vital strategic assets. The Pakistani government is, therefore, increasingly trapped in a strategic blind spot. The government's inability to act as required is also being worsened by Pakistan's increasing financial constraints and multi-front border tension with Afghanistan and Iran, which severely drains the national exchequer's capability to support an open-ended domestic war. Since Islamabad continues to treat Balochistan primarily as a frontier...