After the Pahalgam attack on 22nd April in which 26 unarmed Hindu tourists were killed in cold blood, cries for revenge have been raised in India, trumpeted loudly by the jingoistic Indian godi media.

But revenge against whom ? The culprits who committed this heinous crime disappeared into the neighbouring jungles, and remain untraced to this day, and in all likelihood will never be found. Who were they, Indians or Pakistanis or from some other country, what was their motive, did they have a mastermind, who supplied them the weapons they used, etc, is all unknown.

But someone has to be the scapegoat. Which better scapegoat than India’s favourite whipping boy, Pakistan ? So the servile Indian media has been screaming from the rooftops soon after the incident, putting all the blame on Pakistan, and baying for the blood of that hapless country, though there is no evidence of its complicity in this dastardly incident, as I mentioned in a webinar in which I participated.

Among the steps the Indian government announced was suspension of the Indus Water Treaty of........

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