THIS Pakistan assertion holds the ground that, being highly dismayed over its declining global military reputation caused by India’s fatal defeat through Pakistan military’s Marka-e-Haq in May 2025, the Hindutva-driven Indian policymakers, including India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, (a Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s confidant), have orchestrated a centrifugal trajectory to expand proxy terrorism in Pakistan.

Arguably, while deterrence has largely reduced the prospects of war in South Asia, Pakistan still brews the non-conventional security threats from India as New Delhi’s approach focuses on fostering regional destabilization rather than depending on strategic resilience and diplomatic engagement with Pakistan.

Recent arguments within Pakistani security policy circles suggest that India has expanded its use of proxy terrorism through a “shadow war”. This expanded trajectory includes the alleged activation of “assets” across multiple regions, specifically tasking groups in Balochistan and the Fitna-al-Khawarij (the state-designated term for the banned TTP) to increase their activities following major regional incidents. There is a strong and consistent argument circulating within Pakistani security policy circles and officially articulated by its government and military leadership, that India has expanded a “centrifugal trajectory” of proxy terrorism within Pakistan. Pakistani security officials and analysts have highlighted several dimensions of this perceived expanded trajectory. In 2025 and early 2026, the geopolitical landscape of South Asia has been marked by intense hostility between India and Pakistan, with Pakistan actively accusing the Narendra Modi-led Indian government of conducting a “proxy........

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