By Afshain Afzal

It seems that two nuclear powers; Pakistan and India are on the verge of full fledge war. Not only the masses of these countries are fully charged to see other defeated but also the world peace is generally threatened by the accusations and counter accusations. No doubt, India is neither a terrorist country nor those living in the Indian subcontinent are involved in terrorism. Same stands for neighboring Pakistan and rest of states. However, we cannot deny on going terrorism in India where in the recent incident 28 innocent people were killed in the single act of terrorism at a tourist resort at Pahalgam on 22 April 2025. Who was involved, what were the motives and how to put this threat of terrorism to an end… is the riddle, which the whole world is looking for an answer. Let find the truth if whatever is happening in disputed Jammu and Kashmir is due to Indian fake encounters or state sponsored terrorism or Kashmiris are really terrorists? The investigation is in two parts which United Nations Organization (UNO, the European Union (EU), the Human Rights organization and civilized nations of the world must give a patience thought.

On 9 March 2025, Indian Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan chaired two high-level security review meetings with focus on intensifying anti-terrorist operations ahead of the summer months to neutralize any threat and ensure peace in Jammu and Kashmir during a Hindu event of 38-day annual Amarnath Yatra and inauguration of Kashmir Railway Line by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled from 3 July 2025. The meetings were attended by Corps Commander Lieutenant Navin Sachdeva, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat, Director General of Border Security Force Daljit Singh Chawdhary, the senior officers from National Investigation Agency, Intelligence agencies and Paramilitary Forces. The rationale behind the meeting was recovery of three bodies of missing persons and orders by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for a thorough and transparent investigation into these killings.

Interestingly, exactly how the terrorist involved in the Jaffar Express train terrorist attack on 11 March 2025, where the terrorists divided the passengers in groups comprising of Punjabis, Saraikis, Sindhis, Baloch while separate group of Army and FC personnel were made to killed selected passengers, in Jammu and Kashmir too, the terrorist kidnapped 2 Muslims from Bilawal area of Kathua on 27 February and 3 Hindus from same area on 5 March 2025, all the Hindus were killed while Muslims were spared and set free. The matter was also raised in the Assembly. The Indian Union Minister Jitendra Singh tweeted, "The brutal killing of 3 youth by terrorists in Bani area of ​​district Kathua is extremely sad as well as a matter of great concern. This is a step to disturb the harmonious atmosphere in the area”.

It should not surprise that during Pahalgam terrorist attack on 22 April 2025, in which 24 Indians, one Kashmiri, one Nepali and one UAE citizen were killed while many other sustained injuries, as per the witnesses the terrorists inquired each human target about his religious affiliation before killing him and only Hindus were killed. Exactly as it happened over killing of three Hindus on 8 March, next day on 9 March high-level security review meetings was held to focus on intensifying anti-terrorist operations. This was followed by Cordon & Search Operation by in Kathua district and .joint forces of Army, the Special Operations Group of the J&K Police and the Central Reserve Police Force killed or apprehended many Kashmiris claiming this was done during an encounter. After the Pahalgam terrorist attack, next day the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) met to take account of the situation Pahalgam terrorist attack and decided number of measures and claimed that these measures will remain enforced until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism. This was followed by joint operation in which the Indian Security Forces killed 41 Kashmiri Muslim and arrested over 970 innocent unarmed Kashmiris. They also destroyed the family houses where suspected militant Kashmiris were living.

There is no doubt that 22^nd April terrorist attack was Indian state sponsored plot which was carried out by Indian security apparatus and the agencies which participated in high-level meeting of 9 March 2025. The two Central Reserve Police Force units deployed to protect Pahalgam were withdrawn to execute planned terrorism in order to criminalize Kashmiri Muslims and pave way from extensive heavy military deployment everywhere in deputed Jammu and Kashmir State to allow permanent residence for foreigners and non-State subjects as well as enforce Hindu Raj in Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir in the name of 38-day annual Amarnath Yatra. If we recall, in July 2020, Indian Army Captain Bhupinder Singh was sentenced to life imprisonment for having hired three Kashmiri labourers and staged a fake encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district and later claimed they were Pakistani terrorists to earn cash reward and out-of-turn promotion. Similarly, Colonel Dinesh Pathania, Captain Opendra, Havildar Devender Kumar, Lance Naik Lakhmi, Lance Naik Arun Kumar, and rifleman Abass Hussain of Indian Army were sentenced life imprisonment in fake encounter. (Part - I - Continuing)