EVEN after many months, I still cannot understand why Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to launch missile attacks on various areas of Pakistan in May 2025. If the justification was the terrorist incident in Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of 26 Indian citizens, India acted hastily, declaring its attacks as a global act of aggression without completing investigations or presenting any evidence of Pakistan’s involvement. Even now, India has failed to provide proof linking Pakistan to the planning or execution of the Pahalgam attack.
India carried out the attack believing that, as in the past, Pakistan would face international pressure and remain constrained in its response, regardless of evidence or actual involvement. Secondly, India assumed that due to ongoing political instability within Pakistan, the Pakistani people would not stand with their army in the event of war and that due to a lack of public support, the Pakistan Army would hesitate to retaliate. There was also the fear that any response could escalate into a major war and potentially turn into a nuclear conflict.
Sensing the reality of the Pahalgam false-flag operation, Pakistan immediately demanded an international level investigation into terrorism and even stated that India itself could determine which countries should be involved in the investigation. India’s silence on this issue awakened a sense of realization within India that terrorism was the doing of the Modi Government itself. Contrary to India’s expectations, Pakistan not only made the Indian Air Force an example, but also disabled important Indian installations. India suffered such severe losses that, to avoid further destruction, it had only one option left to surrender. The whole world then witnessed India lowering itself before our defence forces, waving the White Flag in different sectors.
Today, the world recognizes that Pakistan’s response was justified, as India repeatedly fabricates incidents that threaten global peace. Over the past eight months, India has not protested alleged terrorism from Pakistan and it is increasingly clear that India itself is orchestrating such acts within Pakistan while trying to shift the blame. For 78 years, Pakistan has endured Indian state terrorism, yet India continues to malign Pakistan internationally by accusing it of supporting terrorism. In reality, Pakistan remains the victim, facing sabotage and false accusations while striving to protect its sovereignty and maintain regional stability against persistent Indian aggression.
On the other hand, India, while operating from Afghanistan, is involved in various acts of sabotage inside Pakistan. There is no second opinion that India is using Afghan soil not only against Pakistan but also against China. India is trying to damage the CPEC project, while the Afghan agency NDS acts as the right-hand partner of India’s intelligence agency RAW. Terrorists of the BLA are taken to India on Afghan passports by Afghanistan’s NDS after carrying out successful operations in Balochistan, where they are provided luxury and subjected to further brainwashing. There are reports that planning has already been done to reorganize the BLA terrorist organization along the lines of ISIS and India is backing all of this. In short, Pakistan is a victim of Indian state terrorism.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in Faisalabad.
