Pakistan’s anti-India radicalization is backfiring—fueling extremism, eroding democracy, and threatening regional stability. What began as strategy now risks national collapse.

Radicalization is increasingly proving to be a self-destructive force within Pakistan. While once used as a strategic tool, the state is now doubling down on this tactic, particularly as a means to challenge India. What began as geopolitical maneuvering has evolved into an entrenched ideological project—one that now threatens Pakistan’s internal stability and regional peace.

This strategy includes the use of inflammatory anti-India rhetoric, the mobilization of religious-political groups such as Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), and the widespread use of madrasas and other religious institutions to indoctrinate the public. Groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed run expansive madrasa networks that serve as ideological recruitment centers, actively generating and amplifying sentiments around the Kashmir issue. This radicalization ecosystem is central to shaping public discourse and sustaining a climate of hostility toward India.

A glaring manifestation of Pakistan’s state-supported extremism was on display at the Takbir Conference rally held on May 29, 2025, in Lahore. Organized by the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML)—the political wing of the banned LeT—the rally featured Saifullah Kasuri, a senior LeT commander implicated in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. Kasuri arrogantly proclaimed, “Before this incident, Kasur was just a district in Pakistan. Now Kasur is famous across the world”. LeT co-founder Amir Hamza incited the crowd with chants of “Kashmir banega Pakistan, Jammu banega........

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