Pakistan leaders can speak hard, but war with India is the last thing that Pakistanis want

The armed convoys rumble towards the border of Pakistan with India. The fighter planes sharp in the sky. TV screens are filled with imminent conflict warnings. National leaders come from a decisive response to any military action.

But under the Pakistan drum of provocative declarations while tensions burst with India, a tired Pakistani audience considers war as the last thing the country needs.

The gap between official speeches and civil exhaustion reveals a country struggling with deeper weaknesses. Lessons of economic difficulties and political resignation in daily life.

On university campuses and in salons, conversations concern less battles and borders and more on inflation, unemployment, a political system that feels non -representative and a future obscured by uncertainty.

“It makes me uncomfortable,” said Tehseen Zahra, 21, a university student in Islamabad, the capital, a week after a terrorist attack at the cashmere controlled by India, cashmere has ignited the long -standing enmity between India and Pakistan.

“I ask these leaders to show force,” she added. “But talking about war seems too much. We already have too many problems. We need peace, no more problems.”