The leader of Pakistan’s mercenary force, Asim Munir, delivered a series of rants in April—almost literally on the eve of the Pakistan-backed terror attack in Pahalgam—that exposed the country’s repeated and desperate attempts to remain afloat and relevant. Rapidly sliding into the category of an extreme rogue state, Pakistan needed such a misadventure to justify its existence. Munir’s outbursts reflect the very essence of Pakistan: a false state built on a fraudulent ideology that fuels its anti-human politics and calculatedly savage, almost animalistic behaviour.

At the BRICS Summit in Goa in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without mincing words, aptly and presciently described Pakistan as the “mother-ship of terrorism." Those countries and entities that have shown sympathy towards Pakistan must now realise that this “mother-ship of terrorism" can easily come and dock on their shores as well. No one can be safe until the “mother-ship" itself sinks.

Let us briefly delve into the diabolic mindset that drives the Pakistani deep state. Asim Munir is merely a part—an ephemeral bubble—in the long, festering stream of diabolism that has oozed from the architects of Pakistan’s deep state. From Jinnah’s “Direct Action" to Zulfikar Bhutto’s infamous and irrational call for waging a thousand-year war against India, to Zia-ul-Haq’s efforts in laying the deeper foundations of Pakistan as a radical rogue state with Islamism as its lifeblood—the pattern is consistent. Add to this the Yahya Khan-led Pakistan Army’s genocide in East Pakistan, the mass killings of students and Bengali intellectuals, the elimination of minorities in the region, and the deliberate withholding of relief in the aftermath of Cyclone Bhola in 1970, which killed 600,000 people in one night. All are manifestations of a deep-seated, diabolical obsession with shaping Pakistan........

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