On Monday, May 19, Major General Kartik C Seshadri, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 15th Infantry Division, revealed that Pakistan targeted the Golden Temple with missiles and drones on May 8. Indian defences stopped the attack cold. But why did Pakistan do this? Let’s dig into the facts.

Earlier, Khalistani demagogue Gurpatwant Singh Pannun had made wild claims that “20 million Sikhs stand with Pakistan". Pakistan Senator Palwasha Mohammad Zai Khan said in parliament on April 29, “Let them know that the Sikh army will not attack Pakistan because it’s the land of Guru Nanak." Now, if Pakistan is such a friend to Sikhs, why target their holiest shrine? The answer cuts like a kirpan: this was a Pakistani-Khalistani plot to destroy the Golden Temple in pursuit of their wish to create chaos in India. It was a scheme in which Pakistan and its puppet Khalistanis saw Sikhs and Sikhi as mere collateral damage for their agenda.

Imagine, for a moment, if Pakistan had succeeded and the missiles had landed. The Golden Temple in ruins, lives lost, sacred ground defiled. Pakistan and Pannun would have danced on the ashes, screaming “Indian conspiracy" to incite Sikhs against their own nation. The devastation would have been their perfect propaganda weapon, a........

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