NDTV.com: Launching strikes in Pak: Will it serve the purpose?

NDTV.com: Launching strikes in Pak: Will it serve the purpose?
For the last several days, there has been talk of how the impasse after the Mumbai terror strikes could pave the way for military strikes on terror hubs in Pakistan.

Though both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart have stated that war should be avoided.

There have been reports of how both Indian and Pakistani forces remain on full alert for a military confrontation, but armed forces remain on alert even during peacetime and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that conventional military strikes cannot defeat a determined terrorist force.
In the current situation in the subcontinent, here is why a military option may achieve very little.