As Pakistan navigates the complexities of regional politics in 2025, there is an irony so profound that it demands acknowledgement: Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, who invested decades in weakening Pakistan, has inadvertently become one of its most unintentional benefactors.

What makes this reality striking is not merely the catalogue of his missteps but the cumulative effect of those decisions, which transformed Pakistan’s challenges into opportunities. On his 75th birthday (September 17), while India celebrated his survival in politics, Pakistan, with unmasked irony, raised a toast of gratitude for the catalogue of unintended favours that have strengthened our national resolve and global credibility.

The first gift Modi unwittingly offered Pakistan was the demolition of India’s long-cherished myth of secularism. For decades, Pakistan stood nearly alone in arguing that Indian secularism was a fragile mask concealing a rigid hierarchy of caste and a simmering Hindu majoritarianism. The world, distracted by Bollywood, dazzled by India’s markets and reassured by its constitution, dismissed Pakistan’s warnings. But........

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