Where India-Pakistan relations are concerned, it now seems to be a tug of war between the end of patience and the onset of fatigue. In other words, when India gives up in disgust, will it be too tired of the hassle to do anything, or so angry at the way it got played that it can't help but retaliate?

The way things are going, New Delhi has good reason for both reactions.  Pakistan continues to play a stalling game when it comes to taking action against the leader of Lashkar-e-Toiba founder Hafeez Saeed, whom India alleges masterminded the Nov. 26 attacks on Mumbai last year.  And, as Home Minister P. Chidambaram pointed out yesterday, Islamabad doesn't show any signs that it plans to change course — after Pakistan's official statement that the case against Saeed is "half-baked."

According to the Indian Express:

“If it is half-baked, they are welcome to bake it fully,” Chidambaram said responding to media queries about Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s latest remarks stating that a “half-baked case” on Saeed could not be taken to court.

“All the baking ingredients are in Pakistan. The entire evidence is on Pakistani soil. They are most welcome to bake it fully and take it to court,” Chidambaram said adding that all evidence available on Indian soil had been shared with Pakistan and that the remaining evidence is “on Pakistani soil”. 

Meanwhile, despite New Delhi's hopes that the US and the international community would deliver against Pakistan — the sole hope when, in the aftermath of the attacks, India resisted calls for surgical air strikes across the border — Washington recently approved a fat new aid package for Islamabad that flies in the face of any claims of a crackdown. Tripling non-military aid to $1.5 billion a year (if Obama signs the bill into law) is hardly a rap on the knuckles — especially since the supposed limitations on how the money is spent are laughable after reports that Islamabad misspent up to 70 percent of US military aid to develop weapons for use against India (instead of fighting terrorism).

The results haven't been good yet, either, where New Delhi is concerned. India's papers are making much of a New York Times report on Islamabad's failures (for lack of trying?) to reign in Pakistani terrorist groups.  

“The group behind the assault remains largely intact and determined to strike India again,’’ a New York Times report quoting intelligence officials and current and former members of the terror group has said. The Lashkar network, according to the report, has "persisted, even flourished" since the Mumbai terror attacks. A senior Lashkar operative in Karachi said in an interview to the newspaper that "our funds increased and more people wanted to join us" after the Mumbai terror attacks. A midlevel ISI officer told the newspaper that Lashkar’s membership extended to 150,000 people this year.

If you've read this far, you're probably less disgusted than the people of India.