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Despite India’s past failures to implicate Pakistan for supporting terrorism in Afghanistan and the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOK), it still continues to work on its false narrative, makingschemes of blaming Pakistan for supporting terrorism. India is doingthat by airing and publishing false stories as evidence to target the banned terrorist outfits in Pakistan, and to get their individuals declared as terrorists, with the support of its friends in the UNSC. India also alleges Pakistan for terror financing to mislead the FATF to move Pakistan from FATF’s grey list to the black list to make Pakistan liable for economic sanctions to target its economy.

Indiacontinues to blame Pakistan for infiltrating the so-called terrorist camps in the IoK to paint a bleak picture of the fear of terrorism if India lifts 140-day long curfew from the Kashmir valley. India wants to continue with these conditions to completely crush the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle by carrying out their genocide and starving them to submission, and also to complete its agenda of fully integrating the IoK and Laddakh as the union territories with India, as a sequel to the abrogation of Article 370. India also carries out propaganda aimed at negatively influencing other South Asian countries against Pakistan.

India’s anti-Pakistan tirade is also aimed to cover Modi government’s economic failings, its failing policy in Kashmir, and to distract the world attention from the ongoing Kashmir situation, Indian sponsored terrorism in the region, and from BJP’s anti-minorities policies, especially against Muslims. Currently, India is blaming Pakistan for infiltrating so-called terrorists in Kashmir to carryout a false flag operation to deflect worldattention from violent protests being carried out in many Indian states against the passage of the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act by the BJP-dominated Indian parliament.

Modi and BJP’s anti-Pakistan phobia and Indian propaganda strategy areevident from the following well-orchestrated news stories.As per the Economic Times, India and Afghanistan have ratified an extradition treaty signed in 2016that will enable extraditingthe so-called Pakistani-origin terrorists from banned groups like the TTP, who are actuallya proxy of NDS and RAW that went on a terror spree in Pakistan. This is exactly the reason why Pakistan’s fencing border with Afghanistan has created panic in Kabul and New Delhi.

According to the Times of India, three services’ special forces are being deployed in the IOK. This is being done just to defame Pakistan by falsely projectingto the world that the three services’ special forces are being deployed in the IOK to deal with the so-called terrorists being infiltrated by Pakistan.In fact,the deployment of the special forces is meant to perpetuate Indian genocide in Kashmir.

India’s anti-Pakistan tirade is also aimed to cover Modi government’s economic failings, its failing policy in Kashmir, and to distract the world attention from the ongoing Kashmir situation

According to the Hindu, India has projected that the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has very close relations with it, as ahead of his visit to India he said that while working with both China and India, Sri Lanka would not harm India’s security. Although such Indian statements are an attempt to indirectly influence Sri Lanka against China and Pakistan,India understands that the Sri Lankan president can never forget the evil role India played withaproxy war on its soilin support of the then LTTE.

According to the Hindustan Times, Indian officials say that with China’s support, Pakistan has embarked on a tit-for-tat designation of Indian nationals as terrorists by moving the 1267 Al Qaida Sanctions Committee to designate two Indians global terrorists after accusing them of past terror attacks in Balochistan and Peshawar. The Indian terrorist, Khulbhushan Jadhav, is stillin Pakistani custody. India tries to mask its terrorist activities in Pakistan by equating the IoKfreedom struggle with Balochistan and KPK, whereas theIoKis a UNSC recognised dispute, allowing locals to protest and resist the occupation.

In view of the above-given facts, it has become a routine for the Indian government to link every terror-related act to Islamand Pakistan, be it a local, a secessionist, an RSS or a BJP worker. This allows Modi to keep Muslim minority under pressure and present to the world that India is facing an immense threat from Pakistan and Islam, hence justifying her actions in IoK. The Indian strategy indicates thatfor the time being, the Modi and BJP’s Hindutva-led politics in India will thrive on anti-Pakistan propaganda, and its policies against Indian minorities. Although in the process, India’s economy and internal harmony will badly suffer and the separatist movements in India will flourish.

In this situation, Pakistan needs to remain steadfast in focusing on strengthening its economy and providing a solid political, diplomatic and moral support to the people of IoK. The situation in India makes it evident that India will only talk to Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir disputewhen it would have become economically strong and independent.

The writer is a former Research Fellow of Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI), Islamabad and Senior Research Fellow of Strategic Vision Institute, Islamabad