Echoing Hobbes and Machiavelli, Morgenthau points out that sometimes, rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and even murder to fulfill their selfish aims. In this regard, much hue and cry has be made in India when their media took notice of the recent revelations of the website, The Wire, which disclosed the leaked WhatsApp chats between an anchorperson of the Indian Channel Republic TV, Arnab Goswami, and the former CEO of the rating agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), Partho Dasgupta. The chats exposed the sinister designs hatched by Prime Minister Narendar Modi’s government to blame Pakistan for the false Pulwama attack, followed by a botched air strike on Balakot in 2019.
Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the Indian false flag terror attack at Pulwama in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) when, on February 27, 2019, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shot down two Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter jets and launched aerial strikes at six targets in the IIOJK. These were in response to the so-called Indian air strike in the town of Balakot, close to the border with Pakistan’s sector of Kashmir.
On September 18, 2016, India had staged the drama of the terror attack in IIOJK at a military base in Uri, close to the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan. After the episode, India’s top civil and military officials, including their media, started a propaganda against Pakistan by claiming that the militants who targeted the Uri base came from Pakistan’s side of Azad Kashmir. They further added that the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), controlled by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was involved in it. India created war-hysteria against Islamabad and started the mobilisation of its troops near the LoC.
Nevertheless, New Delhi has always accused Islamabad of various terror attacks by saying that it attacked the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai in 2008 and the Indian Air Force Base in Pathankot in 2016. Without any investigation and evidence regarding all these false flag operations, the Indian media and high officials started blaming the ISI and banned militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), as well as LeT. However, through these false flag operations, the Indian establishment not only wanted to gain the sympathies of the world community but also to defame Pakistan in the comity of nations. New Delhi also availed these operations to suspend dialogue with Islamabad to resolve all issues, including the Kashmir dispute.
Exposing the nexus between the extremist outfits BJP and RSS, the then Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde revealed on January 20, 2013 that organised training camps run by these parties were promoting Hindu terrorism. He also explained that they were behind the Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon blasts.
In the same way, prior to the US President Barack Obama’s second visit to New Delhi, Indian intelligence agencies had orchestrated a boat drama by allegedly reporting that a Pakistani fishing boat was intercepted by Indian Coast Guards, off the coast of Porbandar, Gujarat. The actual reality was proved when some Indian top officials admitted that there was no such boat which came from Pakistan.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and DG ISPR, Maj-Gen. Babar Iftikhar have repeatedly stated that India has been planning false flag operations, especially since it has been humiliated in the military standoff with China. Ever since the decision to revoke the special status of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), India is facing many internal challenges and issues. Now, India thinks that the best way forward is to divert attention towards Pakistan. Besides continuous violations of the ceasefire agreement across the LoC, Indian quadcopters have also violated airspace on different occasions. Pakistan’s armed forces are ready to respond any Indian aggression with full might
Nonetheless, Goswami’s WhatsApp conversation has clearly exposed the Indian conspiracy against Pakistan, which verified that the terror attack at Pulwama was a false flag operation.