It is a bitter, historical, regrettable and deplorable fact that India has never reconciled itself to the partition of the subcontinent and the emergence of Islamic Pakistan on the world map. All along the long years spanning more than 78 years, India has been trying its level best to harm, destabilise and economically damage Pakistan in one way or another.

It was India which had stopped irrigation water supplies to Pakistan in 1951. It was India which, after manipulating the Partition Plan and the Radcliffe Award and managing to get control over Muslim-majority areas, had forcibly and illegally annexed Jammu and Kashmir territory by airlifting its security forces there, then rushing to the United Nations and persistently flouting the UN Security Council resolutions granting the right of self-determination to the suffering and bleeding Kashmiris for decades. It was India which had sent its army under the garb of the so-called Mukti Bahini, agitating East Pakistan in 1971 to disintegrate and bifurcate Pakistan by separating its Eastern Wing, which became Bangladesh. India was, and continues to be, promoting and patronising state terrorism against Pakistan using Afghan soil.

This was not all. India has also been resorting to staging false flag operations every now and then. The lengthening list of India-sponsored and staged false flag operations includes the Ganga hijacking, Chittisinghpura massacre, Samjhota Express, Uri, Pathankot and Pulwama.

As these false flag operations continued unabated, the latest false flag operation occurred in April 2025 when more than two dozen tourists were brutally massacred in Pahalgam, quite obviously by........

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