Pakistani Agencies Planning Two New Attacks

One attack is meant to frame the Afghans, the other is meant to incite the Chinese.

- EHSANULLAH EHSAN

On 22 April, a terrorist attack took place on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, resulting in the death of 26 unarmed tourists and leaving several others injured. Following this terror attack by a Pakistan-based terror group, tensions escalated between Pakistan and India, with both countries launching aerial and missile attacks on each other.

The Pahalgam attack occurred approximately 42 days after my article was published in The Sunday Guardian in March. In my article published on 9 March (Pakistan's renewed strategy: Using jihadist groups in Kashmir amid growing Delhi-Kabul ties), I had written that Pakistan has once again recalled its proxy groups to restart operations in Kashmir.

These groups were tasked with establishing bases in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and, in addition to cross-border infiltration, activating internal sleeper cells on the Indian side.

The 22 April attack in Pahalgam marks the beginning of this renewed series of attacks, which has brought the region to the brink of war.