Once again Pakistan’s strategy of asymmetric warfare against its larger South Asian neighbour has plunged the region to the brink of a wider war. Long-term Pakistani support of anti-India militant groups – in particular Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) – continually destabilises the region. The attack on tourists in the honeymoon location of Pahalgam meadow in Kashmir was deliberate, savage, targeted at Hindu men, and clearly targeted to provoke a response and create fertile ground for further action. Women who survived were told, ‘Tell this to Modi.’
Pakistan has lowered its threshold, so that a nuclear attack can be provoked by an Indian conventional attack on Pakistani military installations
The group who carried out the attack on 22 April called themselves the ‘Resistance Front,’ but were just another avatar of the Pakistan-financed LeT and JeM factions. Earlier this year, India had warned about the Resistance Front, and wanted them to be included in the UN’s six-monthly global assessment of terrorist threats.
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