One attack is meant to frame the Afghans, the other is meant to incite the Chinese.
On 22 April, a terrorist attack took place on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, resulting in the death of 26 unarmed tourists and leaving several others injured. Following this terror attack by a Pakistan-based terror group, tensions escalated between Pakistan and India, with both countries launching aerial and missile attacks on each other.
The Pahalgam attack occurred approximately 42 days after my article was published in The Sunday Guardian in March. In my article published on 9 March (Pakistan’s renewed strategy: Using jihadist groups in Kashmir amid growing Delhi-Kabul ties), I had written that Pakistan has once again recalled its proxy groups to restart operations in Kashmir.
These groups were tasked with establishing bases in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and, in addition to cross-border infiltration, activating internal sleeper cells on the Indian side.
The 22 April attack in Pahalgam marks the beginning of this renewed series of attacks, which has brought the region to the brink of war.
Despite this, the series of attacks will not be stopped but will be intensified, because Pakistan’s army and intelligence agencies believe their survival lies in maintaining an atmosphere of war in the region. That is why they have continued their interference in Afghanistan through ISIS and now seek to reignite a war-like environment with India by reactivating their old proxy organisations in Kashmir.
Due to the army’s oppression within Pakistan—especially in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa—and its interference in political matters, public trust in the military has eroded.
Now, by worsening relations with India, they aim to regain public sympathy based on anti-India sentiment. In the recent skirmishes with India, the state propaganda machinery has been deployed to improve the military’s image.
Pakistan will not stop after Pahalgam; rather, it seeks to escalate this tension further and provoke more attacks to inflame the fire of war.
According to highly reliable sources, Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have already completed planning two more major attacks, which they are likely to execute soon.
According to these sources, the first plan is to orchestrate an attack in a major Indian city in a way that damages relations between Afghanistan and India. One individual involved in this plan was arrested by Afghan forces some time ago, and fake Afghan passports were recovered from him.
Subsequent investigations revealed that these fake Afghan passports were to be used during an attack in India so that the attackers could be portrayed as Afghans, thereby damaging India-Afghanistan relations. The plan is reportedly still under consideration, and Pakistani agencies may implement it at any time.
Additionally, Pakistan wants to drag China into this war. Therefore, Pakistani intelligence agencies are also working on a sabotage plan near the India-China border. In this plan, they intend to provoke the Chinese by carrying out an attack near their border and then blame India for it, aiming to create a war-like situation between the two countries.
Not long ago, Pakistan used its proxy ISIS to attack Chinese nationals in Afghanistan, in which one Chinese citizen was killed. Later, Afghan intelligence agencies arrested the perpetrators of the attack, who admitted their links with Pakistani agencies.
Pakistan’s institutions want to protect their interests by pushing the region into fire and bloodshed. Immediate action is necessary to stop them because if these Pakistani agencies are not restrained, they will not hesitate to endanger world peace for their own interests.
Once again, through this article, we are warning everyone about Pakistan’s war frenzy and dangerous intentions. I pray that, unlike my earlier prediction made in my article dated 9 March, this one does not come true, and no more innocent lives are lost to the dirty politics and selfish interests of states.