Pakistan, Sept. 19 -- The government of India would do well to take a good long look at its own internal economic and financial collapse rather than continue to indulge in regular misadventures on the Line of Control and try to provoke Pakistan into a confrontation. That the Modi administration has been having sleepless nights ever since the embarrassment that surrounded what has since become known as the Abhinandhan incident is understandable. No doubt nothing would please it, and its constituents, more than returning the favour to Pakistan. That is, after all, why Delhi recently went on a weapons buying frenzy and got fighter jets from France and other equipment including spy drones from Israel.

But all the time Prime Minister Modi has...