India on April 16, 2025, experienced a deadly terrorist attack in the Pahalgam area of the greater Jammu and Kashmir region, with authorities suspecting that the perpetrators may have crossed from Kishtwar in the Tezpur and reached Baisaran via Kokernag in south Kashmir, carrying out one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the valley in recent years.
The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 civilians, including two foreigners who were in the area.
This terrorist attack took place a few days after the Pakistani army chief, General Asim Munir, described Kashmir as the “carotid artery” of the country, wanting to imply with this analogy that Pakistan considers Kashmir an integral geographical and cultural part of it, a part that protrudes slightly from the main body of the country but is necessary for the country to continue to have a voice, a voice from which Pakistan wants to draw political and religious power.
Naturally, the Indian people found Asim Munir’s statement provocative and inappropriate. But the Pakistani army chief continued his hate speech against India, saying that Pakistan would continue to stand with the people of Kashmir in their struggle against Indian occupation. He also urged Pakistanis to tell stories to their children so that they would not forget that “they are different from Hindus.”
On April 17, Randhir Jaiswal, the official spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, rejected Pakistan’s claim that Kashmir was its carotid artery, asking “how can the carotid artery be in a vein that someone deliberately cuts and makes it bleed permanently?”
Relations between India and Pakistan have never been friendly and deteriorated after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on August 5, 2019, which overturned the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and divided the region into two parts.
The question that arises now is what is really happening with the Pakistani army that is constantly creating unrest in its neighboring countries as it is not only responsible for these incidents in Kashmir but for many years has been constantly organizing attacks that it sometimes takes responsibility for them and sometimes not so much in Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Regarding the battles it has started against its neighbors, initially the Pakistani army has waged four wars with India, first in 1947-48, second in 1965, third in 1971 and fourth in the Kargil War in 1999. Pakistan has lost all four wars. For the first time, the Pakistani army has taken responsibility for the Kargil War against India.
Army Chief General Asim Munir, in a speech he gave on September 7, 2024 during a ceremony to mark Pakistan’s Defense Day, made a special mention of Pakistani soldiers who had died in various conflicts with India, including the Kargil War, a subject he had carefully avoided in official statements for over two decades.
This time, however, Munir did not hesitate to state that “the Pakistani community is a community of brave men who understand the importance of freedom and its cost.
That is why in 1948, 1965, 1971, and in the Kargil War in 1999, thousands of soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country and Islam. »Unlike his predecessor, the modest pragmatist General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Asim Munir, known for his aggressive stance and risk-taking, seems to be reviving the doctrine of “managed escalation,” a strategy that uses carefully calculated acts of violence as a tool for political pressure.
To understand why Pakistan resorts to such acts, we must examine the country’s current internal situation. Pakistan today is a deeply unstable state. It is economically paralyzed, politically clouded, and socially disintegrated.
In this context, the Pakistani military’s adventurism in Kashmir is becoming a political tool as it is the military’s means of deflecting popular discontent from the country’s socio-economic situation. The influence of the Pakistani military has often extended beyond its constitutionally defined responsibilities. There have been many instances in Pakistan’s history where the military has intervened in the country’s political affairs, suspending democratic governance and acting as a powerful force within the state, a “semi-autonomous state within a state”.
In addition, the Pakistani military has engaged in numerous border clashes with Afghanistan along the Durand Line, as well as numerous attacks on civilians in Balochistan, often in coordination with Iranian security forces.
In addition, the Pakistani military has participated in international military engagements and terrorist attacks.
Since the 1960s, the Pakistani military has supported Arab states during the Arab-Israeli conflicts. It also cooperated with the United States during the first Gulf War in the early 1990s.
Regarding the atrocities committed by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh, Bangladesh has demanded that Pakistan formally apologize for the genocide it committed against the Bangladeshi people in 1971, a genocide that killed three million people according to Bangladeshi authorities.
Of course, Pakistan usually tries to distort the reality by reporting only 26,000 civilian casualties. The Bangladesh genocide is the only genocide in modern times that resulted from a policy of deliberate suppression of the democratic aspirations of the people.
Now, Pakistan and Bangladesh have experienced a significant improvement in bilateral relations since the transitional government, led by Nobel laureate Mr. Yunus, took power in Bangladesh after protests that toppled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024 and sent her into exile in India. It is now clear that Pakistan and Bangladesh find common political ground in the supremacy of Muslims over Hindus in the region.
Then, regarding the Pakistani military’s actions in Afghanistan, on December 25, 2024, the Pakistani military carried out pre-dawn airstrikes on multiple targets in Paktika province, Afghanistan.
Afghan officials said the attacks killed at least 47 terrorists and wounded 23 others. “The Pakistani side should understand that such arbitrary measures are not a solution to any problem,” Enayatullah Khojazami, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, wrote on the social media platform X. “The Islamic Emirate will not leave this cowardly act unanswered and considers the defense of its territory an inalienable right,” he added, referring to Afghanistan by the name given by the Taliban government.
Members of the Pakistani military often forcibly separate young boys from their families, who then lose track of them. Then, while the boys are vulnerable, exposed in a remote location far from their homes, they repeatedly rape them, destroying their dignity, sense of self-respect and hope for a future. When all hope is lost and the young person is ready to commit suicide, the Mullah appears, presenting Allah and faith in the Quran as a lifeline for the shattered individual.
The military and religious leaders play a violent game of destroying the individual’s psyche by using the two sides of the same coin, despair and faith. The individual who had just lost everything has now found a new purpose for existence.
Killing infidels in the name of Allah without of course having any fear or saneness in dying fighting himself. Why does this extreme method of rape remain a taboo subject in the Pakistani army, which many know about but no one talks about?
For the same reason that no one denounces the rapes that take place against women in the North Korean army. Because we are talking about people who, from the crushing they have suffered, are now empty human vessels that have lost all sense of humanity and can now perform functions without criticism.
Concluding the analysis of the Pakistani army, it is difficult to be optimistic that it will not commit atrocities again since it is a formation formed against the concept of respect for man and before we consider that something like this only happens to desperate poor provincial youths who are recruited to man the Pakistani army, let us also think about the European girls who voluntarily go to Dubai to take part in drinking parties.
The most dangerous thing that makes a person either an empty vessel or a war machine is the loss of self-consciousness and unfortunately this loss of consciousness is achieved in the best way by both materialism and religious fanaticism.
