By Nazish Mehmood

Relations between India and Pakistan have never been defined by equality or fairness; they have been poisoned by India’s repeated conspiracies, baseless allegations, and a campaign of violence across the contested frontier. Far from being a victim, New Delhi has been the aggressor driving the region into cycles of mistrust and bloodshed. In April 2025, Pakistan’s security forces exposed India’s hand in terror with undeniable proof: direct payments made by Indian Military Intelligence (MI) to agents sent to spread bloodshed in Pakistan. During investigations, terrorists nabbed inside Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) admitted that Indian handlers had wired $28,000 through Punjab Bank (India) and another $55,851 from an Indian national in New Delhi via Afghanistan International Bank to finance sabotage across the Line of Control (LoC) (Dawn, April 2020). These payments were not abstract numbers, they were cash for carnage, blood money meant to buy explosives, weapons, and the lives of innocent Pakistanis. The April arrests only confirmed what Pakistan has been saying for years: India pays terrorists to destroy peace in Pakistan and then shamelessly blames Pakistan for the very crimes it funds.

This is no new story. Since 2016, Pakistan has recorded at least 54 incidents of IEDs being smuggled or detonated across the LoC. These attacks, in areas like Chakothi, Nezapir, Chirikot, Rakhchikri, Deva, Battal, and Kot Kotera, have killed and injured 58 Pakistanis, both civilians and soldiers (The News International, 2025). On February 4–6, 2025, four IEDs were recovered in Battal and Rawlakot. One Pakistani soldier was martyred when an IED planted by Indian agents was remotely triggered during a recovery operation. These devices were not random, they were designed to create panic in peaceful belts of AJK, disrupt civil-military trust, and sabotage Pakistan’s stability. Evidence was handed to UN officials, exposing India’s duplicity on the ground (Express Tribune, 2025)
At the same time, India continues to violate ceasefire agreements with unprovoked firing. On February 12, 2025, Indian troops carried out sniping in Deva and Bagsar, injuring two Pakistani soldiers (The News, 2025). For Pakistan, these are more than provocations, they are part of a wider strategy where Indian intelligence tries to create unrest in AJK while projecting its own failures in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) onto Pakistan.

The truth is clear: India has industrialized a model of state terrorism. RAW recruits’ smugglers, pushes narcotics and weapons across the LoC, arranges fake encounters, and then glorifies them as “counter-terrorism.” In April 2021, police in Baramulla and Uri worked with India’s 12 Jatt Regiment to arrange drug and arms consignments from AJK, later “recovering” them in staged operations (The Times of India, 2021). In November 2022, a video filmed by civilians in Punjtaran, 1.6 km from the LoC, showed an Indian soldier hiding a weapons cache near his home, only to later recover it as proof of Pakistan’s “terror sponsorship” (Dunya News, 2022). And in February 2023, an Indian handler from Kupwara lured three men from AJK into narco-arms smuggling. One was killed in a fake encounter, while the survivors were blamed as Pakistani “terror infiltrators”. Each case followed the same script: India manufactures the crime, kills the pawns, and then blames Pakistan.

But India’s propaganda is not limited to LoC theatrics. It extends into international forums, where New Delhi spends more energy framing Pakistan than confronting its own guilt. On September 3, 2025, Times Now celebrated how India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) had pieced together “463 phone calls” and “₹9 lakhs from Malaysia” to build a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) case against Pakistan (Times Now, 2025). The target was The Resistance Front (TRF), which India calls a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy. Yet the hypocrisy is staggering. India pushes FATF to scrutinize Pakistan over ₹9 lakhs (barely $10,000) while its own MI is caught funding militants with $28,000 and $55,851 in single transactions (Dawn, April 2025). Add to that the billions of dollars of misappropriated Afghan aid, estimated between $3–4 billion, which Pakistan’s 2020 dossier exposed as redirected to TTP and BLA, and the scale of India’s duplicity becomes undeniable.

This campaign is not accidental. It is designed to cover up India’s own failures in Kashmir, where even today millions live under curfews, surveillance, and fear. When unrest rises in IIOJK, India responds not by listening to Kashmiris but by staging encounters, planting arms, or smuggling drugs and then blaming Pakistan. This way, New Delhi distracts both its own population and the international community from its occupation and brutality.

Pakistan, on the other hand, has consistently placed evidence before the world. In 2016, the arrest of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav in Balochistan exposed RAW’s sabotage network targeting CPEC and funding militants (Dawn, 2016). In 2017, his death sentence made clear the seriousness of India’s involvement. In 2020, Pakistan’s dossier to the UN and P5 nations linked India directly to the APS Peshawar massacre and the Chinese consulate attack in Karachi, attacks carried out by groups funded and trained by India (Express Tribune, 2020). In 2024, Pakistan’s First Secretary Jawad Ajmal stood at the UN General Assembly and accused India of funding TTP, BLA, and the Majid Brigade through Afghan soil and diplomatic cover (UNGA coverage, Al Jazeera, 2024). And in 2025, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared openly that Narendra Modi was behaving like an “international terrorist,” funding extremists in Pakistan, the US, and Canada (Dawn, 2025). The world has seen this evidence, but too often it has chosen silence.

Inside India itself, the rot is visible. Over 100 Indian soldiers commit suicide every year, a reflection of poor morale, corruption, and brutal command structures (The Hindu, 2024). Instead of admitting this crisis, India blames “cross-border firing” or “Pakistan-sponsored militants.” Indian officers and units, from the 3 Rajpoot to the 12 Jatt Regiment, have been punished for narcotics trafficking and staged killings, yet New Delhi projects them as heroes in its media (The system thrives on lies.

Pakistan cannot allow these lies to stand unchallenged. Every IED recovered in Battal, every Across-LoC smuggling attempt, every fake encounter staged in Baramulla or Kupwara tells the same story: India is exporting terror, not fighting it (Dawn, 2025). The payments of $28,000 and $55,851 are not just accounting figures. They are receipts of Indian guilt, proof that the hands of RAW and Indian MI are soaked in blood (The Express Tribune, 2025).

The international community must ask itself: will it continue to accept India’s propaganda at face value, or will it finally confront the evidence Pakistan has laid bare? The stakes are not only for Pakistan’s security but for regional peace. A South Asia destabilized by Indian state-sponsored terror is a danger to the world’s most populous region, home to nuclear powers and vital trade corridors (Al Jazeera, 2025).

India’s game is simple: buy terrorism, stage narratives, blame Pakistan. Pakistan’s response must remain clear and consistent: expose the evidence, protect its sovereignty, and demand accountability. The world cannot afford to be blind any longer. If India is allowed to keep funding terror while deflecting blame, the cycle of bombs, deaths, and propaganda will only grow worse. Pakistan stands as both the victim of India’s designs and the frontline state exposing them. And it is high time the world recognized who is paying the real price and who is paying the terrorists.

 
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