What will India do now?

WHY does India repeatedly resort to aggression against Pakistan? As Pakistan celebrates what many describe as a remarkable success in the “Battle of Truth,” this question deserves serious reflection. Another related question also arises: why does India repeatedly stage false-flag operations and then place the blame on Pakistan? The answer is not particularly difficult to understand. A clue lies in a statement made by prominent Indian journalist Pravin Sawhney while discussing tensions between China and India. Speaking about the failure of India’s so-called “Operation Sindoor,” he remarked: “China is a successful country that we, as Indians, have been unable to accept.” In my view, India’s dilemma regarding Pakistan is exactly the same. It is both fascinating and deeply revealing. I no longer remember the name of another Indian intellectual, but one question raised by him still burns in my memory like a lamp. He asked: if Muslims and Hindus fought shoulder to shoulder during the War of Independence in 1857, what happened afterward that Muslims chose to separate their political destiny from the Hindus? That is the central question that unlocks the mystery of partition and explains why Pakistanis today stand united like a wall of steel in operations such as Maarka-e-Haq. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was the first great Muslim thinker of the subcontinent to openly describe the discriminatory attitude of the Hindu majority toward Muslims. He argued clearly that the two nations could not move forward together because the Hindu majority lacked the capacity to rise above narrow-mindedness regarding Muslim rights and identity. After Sir Syed, the Khairi brothers promoted similar ideas through their newspaper ‘’ Akhwat’’ published from Istanbul. Although these ideas remained part of intellectual discourse for years, they did not yet become a political movement. It was Allama Muhammad Iqbal who, through his Allahabad Address of 1930, transformed this concept into a practical political