JK News Today News Desk
It is quite bizarre that few sections of media in India are peddling Pakistani narrative, demanding investigations for the Indian conclusion of Pakistan’s involvement in the gruesome Pahalgam terror attack. This line of thinking and articulation is not merely rooted in their so-called liberalism that they claim to be advocating, but the hospitality that Pakistan extends to them time and again. With the closure of the visas between Indian and Pakistan, they are furious. . They are invited to the conferences in Pakistan and served all kind of deceptive propaganda and asked to broadcast in their written articles or through audio-visual broadcasts. They have their loyalties to their greed.
Two things come out of it. First they want to cover up the terrorists, and their patrons , hand in the Pahalgam carnage- as if the 26 died just like that , and the Indian government is reflecting on the whole thing just pin Pakistan for it. They are demanding evidence in almost the same manner as Pakistan’s military establishment and civilian leadership is clamouring for. Second, they, quite consciously, are giving credence to the “false flag” operation charge against India that Pakistan media and political circles have been broadcasting 24×7.
The whole of the country, and in particular, the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, has seen this tragedy in the right perspective. The facts on the ground as these unfolded on April 22nd in the meadow of Barisaran, where terrorists asked the tourists to recite “Kalima” – the Islamic verse which every Muslim should know – and then shot them between neck and head. It reveals the exact designs of the terrorists that they wanted to show themselves as Islamists and non-Muslim tourists as the ones who had no reason to live. This was their hatred for the religion of the tourists.
Terrorists, integrated religion with their brutal execution of the tourists, to further the Hindu-Muslim divide, at a time when there were certain disturbances in the country over Waqf Amendment Act of 2025. Another point that needs to be understood is that though some of the political leaders in Kashmir had voiced their strong opinion against the Waqf Act, common Kashmiris were going about their business as usual, and particularly happy were those hosting tourists. It was not about the number of tourists visiting or staying in the Valley, what mattered most was the new bond that had emerged between the tourists and their Kashmiri hosts, in a way between the rest of the nation and the Valley people, post abrogation of Article 370. The abrogation had brought down all the physical and psychological barriers. And that is what Pakistan and its agents in the country did not like it. That is the genesis of Pahalgam attack.
These elements in India got unnerved by the thumping and united response of Kashmir against the carnage. They shut down their businesses, filled the streets to express their uncontrolled outrage against the gruesome tragedy inflicted on their guests. They were demanding immediate action against the perpetrators of the heinous act, while maintaining that no Kashmiri was involved. Their fingers were straight toward the western neighbour, the habitual terror exporter. There is no other place and the people in the country who know it better that how Pakistan ruined them and their land.
This rang alarm bells in Pakistan, and they activated their sympathizers in the media on this side of the border- some saying that this attack was at the centre of two-nation theory, others demanding investigation and evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the terror attack and the shattering impact it left on the heart and mind of the nation, and in particular, the Valley.
Few others said that this protest of Kashmiris was against the Government of India and referred particularly to what they called boast of Home Minister Amit Shah that tourists were coming in large numbers to Kashmir as there was no fear now. There could be nothing more ridiculous .They should have looked at the number of tourists who visited the Valley in the last three years and who went back to their homes with their life time memories in Kashmir , walking and dancing amidst high mountains , meadows , around lakes and rivers .
