In this episode of OPEN COLLAR, Major Gaurav Arya speaks with Lt. Gen. Devendra Pratap Pandey (Retd.) on the surge of violence inside Pakistan and its spillover implications for Balochistan and Kashmir. Attacks by the Baloch Liberation Army and sectarian strikes on Shias are explained as symptoms of deeper political and economic fault lines, with Baloch groups increasingly uniting against the state.The conversation also examines Pakistan’s shift from sustained insurgency to periodic high-impact attacks, supported by ideological networks like Jamaat-e-Islami that sustain radicalisation over time. The episode concludes that the region is entering a phase of hybrid conflict — neither war nor peace, but a constant state of calibrated tension.