Global Watch | Operation Gazab Lil Haq: Pakistan's War Of Optics Amid A Crisis At Home

While 'Operation Gazab Lil Haq' may project strength, its very existence underscores a failure of foresight, policy and governance

When Pakistan announced the launch of ‘Operation Gazab Lil Haq’ on February 26 against Afghanistan, the name itself seemed designed for effect.

This peculiar phrase, which roughly translates as “Fury for truth", suggested moral clarity and even inevitability. But behind this grandiose terminology lies a far more prosaic reality: Pakistan is a troubled state struggling to contain mounting violence at home and hence turning, once again, across the contested Durand Line as both battleground and diversion.

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The latest escalation began when Pakistan carried out airstrikes deep inside Afghan territory on February 22 and claimed to have killed nearly 80 fighters from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The group has emerged as the security nightmare for the Pakistani authorities by conducting attacks against government and military installations with unprecedented success.

But Kabul swiftly rejected Islamabad’s account and accused Pakistan of targeting civilian homes and killing at least 18 people, including women and children, holding that it reserved the right to retaliate against this breach of sovereignty. And it did retaliate on the intervening night of February 26, when Afghan Taliban government forces launched large-scale cross-border strikes on Pakistani military positions all along the........

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