By Afshain Afzal

Fake news, disinformation and cooked stories from both Indian and Pakistani sides have created a lot of confusion. Ironically, on hourly basis bundles of lies are bombarded by even state authorities without any fear of accountability and curse for lying. The media has totally lost its ethics and credibility while International community acts as silent spectators to the ethnic cleansing, mass cold-blooded murders and grave human rights violations. They are playing with the sentiments and emotions of general public and international community.

Ironically, the Armed Forces of both the countries have cordial relations and dine, sport and dance together during missions abroad, training or course abroad but pose as if they are enemies No 1 of each other. With the exception of few, the same stand good for general public. A good majority of Pakistanis in Armed Forces, government services, judiciary, education department, media, poets and writers, overseas Pakistanis and those in other filed have relatives in India to whom they also visit but a drama is staged to achieve own vested interests and false standards of loyalty.

India carried out number of missile attacks inside Pakistani territory killing many Pakistanis. Now under the UNO charter and international law Pakistan has right to respond and attack India or UNO must pronounce India as aggressor and slap sanctions. Today India is making false claims that Pakistan also carried drone and missile attacks on India cities on 7/8 May 2025, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amratsar, Kapoortalla, Jullandar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhittanda, Chandigarh, Naal, Foladi, Uttarlai and Bhuj. This needs to be investigated under the UNO supervision to find the truth. One wonders this drama is meant to carryout mass target killings, ethnic cleansing and legitimate human rights violations.

Without going into past, official record of both the countries confirms that since 22 April 2025 Pahalgam tourist resort attack that killed 28 innocent people, Indian security forces in held Jammu and Kashmir alone carried out joint combing and search operations in which between 22^nd April and 8^th May 2025, 423 Kashmiris have been killed while apprehensions as suspected terrorists have crossed 2105. Many properties of innocent Kashmiris have been demolished or attached with the Indian authorities on the suspicion of being terrorists or their facilitators. On the other hand, in case of Pakistan, as per the Press Releases issued by Inter Services Public Relations on its official website, this year up to 8 May 2025, Pakistani security forces have killed 343 Pakistanis, who are dubbed by Army as Khawarij (terrorists). Out of these 95 were killed between 22 and 08 May 2025. In many case the properties of killed Khawarij have been taken over by the authorities as enemy properties.

After the 6/7 May 2025, attacks on Pakistan, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh of Indian Air Force briefed about Operation Sindoor, carried out by India to avenge the 22^nd April 2025 Pahalgam state’s self-engineered terrorist attack. She claimed that Indian Armed Forces carried out attack on 21 locations including Sawai Nallah, Syedna Bilal Mosque cum Madrassa, Masjid-e-Aqsa, Chelabandi, Abdullah bin Masood, Dulai, Garhi Habibullah, Batrasi, Balakot, Oghi,, Boi, Sensa, Gulpur, Kotli, Barali, Dungi, Barnala, Mehmoona Joya, Sarjal, Muridke and Bahawalpur. Let us share the whole truth about these locations highlighted in slide as “Terrorist Camps in POJK and Pakistan” in the same presentation.

It is an open secret that some of these locations are Mosques and Madaris, which had nothing to do with Freedom Fighter, militants or terrorists activities and might there be coincidence that some Kashmiri freedom fighters also prayed in the these Mosques. Some of the remaining locations are Kashmiri Refugees Camps, where each month many foreigners and aid workers visit while three decades back only three locations were bases or offices of Freedom Fighter till 1990s. Now there are no Freedom fighters or terrorist camps in these places. Some Kashmiris do cross over to either sides of Line of Control as they have relatives living there.

As majority 6/7 May targets inside Pakistan were Mosques and Madaris, it is important to highlight that ever since the creation of Pakistan, Intelligence agencies dominated be specific sects and Indians settled in Pakistan in the name of migration had been misguiding the authorities and the world about students and teachers of Mosques and Madaris as they used to stop them from evil and asked to do good. Mostly those associated with Mosques and Madrassa are orphans who have not even enough money to get school education and sometimes food to eat. They are admitted here to save money and ensure that they at least get their meals. Ironically, Government of Pakistan don’t support Mosques and Madaris and in very special circumstance the Auqaf Department issue meager amount as formality but intern collect donations and Zakat worth billions of rupees in their names.

The Muslims including students and teacher Mosques and Madaris have nothing to do with Jihad or holy war. However, some of them volunteer in the fulfillment of orders provided in Holy Quran. For example, holy Quran Chapter An Nisa Verse 75 guides Muslims, “And why not you fight in the path of Allah and for the oppressed men, women and children who say to their Rab (God Almighty) give us relief from this land of oppressors and appoint us a savior. And appoint us a helper from your grace.” But these poor orphans are never allowed to do that rather they are ruthlessly killed under various foreign funded operations to blame them for everything.    

With regard to the Indian attacks on Pakistan, it is strange that the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA), which officially took over the investigation of killing of 28 people at Pahalgam during terrorist attack of 22 April 2025, has not yet finalized the investigation and as on 8 May still collecting evidence from general public to solve the riddle whether it was really the Kashmiris terrorists or Indian Armed Forces themselves carried out killings to ensure continues deployment of 1.1 million security forces in Indian held disputed Jammu and Kashmir state.

To conclude, it is difficult to believe as being narrated, because there are too wide gaps in the 6 May Indian missile attacks and later 8 May drone attacks inside Pakistan. Fake news and photos that Pakistan Armed Forces personnel attended funeral of three persons killed in Indian attack at Muridke. It is strange that Pakistan has declared the organization as terrorist so how uniform personnel can attend the funeral. No doubt, intelligence agencies are backbone of countries and they carryout a lot of good things but many of them misguides their superiors to get incentives and promotions while some non-locals settled in the area due to hatred also spread misinformation. The bottom line is that Pakistan and India must realize that Jammu and Kashmir is the core issue that must be resolved on merit through implementing legitimate agreements and UNO Resolution where as a full fledge war should be the last option to achieve justice and peace. It is high time that UNO must play its due role in providing right of self-determination to the Kashmiris.