A lie has no legs to stand upon, a proverbial truth that succinctly but consummately delineates Indian foreign policy with particular reference to Pakistan. Yet again, the reality took no time to sink in for the global community when on April 22, 2025, a terrorist attack at Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in the Anantnag district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir killed 27 tourists and injured a dozen others. However, moments after the tragic incident took place, it was out of a kind of sudden gaumutra-induced hallucination or something more transcendental or thaumaturgic that the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, in cahoots with the country’s trigger-happy electronic media, took no time to hold Pakistan responsible for the act committed by unidentified culprits. In place of finding fault with their own security lapses, par for the course, India’s BJP-led political leadership hopped onto the propaganda bandwagon with all possible haste, shouting at the top of their lungs against their western neighbor. This all cretinism occurred from the word go although no primary investigation was carried out or any logical proof was ever accumulated to prove that Islamabad had any hands in it at all. What else followed post-Pahalgam was nothing but a mere show of shudh idiocy and mass hysteria that seems to have gripped the Indian state machinery, coupled with a hoodwinked junta, blaming Pakistan for whatever wrongdoings inflicting Bharat Mata under the sun, as well as assigning guilt to Islamabad for all the ills plaguing the world’s largest country of over 1.5 billion people, who perpetually find themselves in a bind under the custodianship of the 4th largest army of the world, specialized in phony surgical strikes and false-flag operations.
From the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) to releasing the sketches of ‘cross-border terrorists’ behind the act way before sharing the names of the murdered comprising both Muslims and Hindus, the Indian narrative, ridden with AI-generated fake images with a flurry of concocted information tinged with Hindu victimhood, was not only replete with scores of loopholes from the beginning, the urgency to drag Pakistan into the pre-scripted false-flag operation was even more startling. Literally crossing the red line in one go, the unilateral revocation of the Indus Water Treaty by India, that too on the fancied grounds, is, per se, a blatant act of war, which cannot bring with itself other than a full-scale war. On the face of it, the mastermind behind yet another false-flag operation by India at Pahalgam, similar to the Pulwama attack of 2019, is deeply inspired by a Bollywood potboiler. The recent Phalagam episode has emerged as another theatrical ploy of the Modi-led regime to regain waning political clout before the holding of the state elections and solicit international sympathy by projecting themselves as victims of cross-border terrorism, even though New Delhi’s role in fomenting terrorism inside Pakistan is as true as sun rises from the east. Mind you! Neither is it 1971 when West Pakistan was a thousand miles away from its eastern part, nor is a nuclear-armed Pakistan a helpless state like Palestine. Water is life, and any nefarious designs to take it away would make war compulsory, not an option.