There are days when the pronouncements from Islamabad are not just diplomatic statements, but anguished cries for the world to witness an unfolding tragedy. The recent press conference, where Pakistan’s senior military and government officials laid bare India’s alleged orchestration of the devastating school bus bombing in Khuzdar, Balochistan, was such a moment. The very words – “state-sponsored terrorism,” “Indian provocation” – though sadly necessitated by recurring events, gain a horrifying new resonance when tied to the innocent lives of children, to a school bus violently torn apart. Six precious lives, three of them students, were stolen, and over forty others, mostly young learners, bear the physical and emotional scars of this barbarity. It’s an image that should shame any nation implicated.

Pakistan has, with tragic regularity, been forced to present evidence of India’s destructive machinations on its soil. Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the DG ISPR, spoke with the grim certainty of a nation pushed to its limits, reiterating the damning and long-held assertion that India has systematically sponsored terrorism against Pakistan since its very........

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