Was the Recent India-Pakistan Tension in Kashmir Orchestrated by the US and UK?
The Middle East Monitor has written in this regard: Within hours, the Indian government, with its reactions that were more propaganda than legal investigation, pointed the finger of blame at Pakistan. No evidence was needed. No investigation was needed. They declared that Pakistan was the mastermind of the attack.
Tensions escalated following statements by military and political officials on both sides to the point that India closed the water to Pakistan and last night launched missile attacks on areas of Pakistani Kashmir, killing and injuring 75 people. According to media reports, Pakistan responded to this action by shooting down several Indian army fighter jets with artillery attacks on Indian border areas and then threatened to retaliate.
India’s narrative in the Pahalgam incident is an old one; Delhi claims that no Kashmiri can rise up against India unless incited and supported by Islamabad. From this perspective, every protest and every stone thrown is attributed to Islamabad’s cross-border evils.
Across the border, Pakistan’s military leadership is also grappling with a series of domestic embarrassments. The once-vaunted China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been virtually suspended amid recent insecurity, targeting of Chinese workers and Islamabad’s failure to contain the incidents, which has worried Chinese investors. Pakistani generals are now pleading with their Chinese backers to be patient and continue investing despite the political and economic chaos.
However, the situation is unfolding in such a way that the generals are finding opportunities to serve Washington’s strategic whims, willingly or unwillingly, in the grand chessboard of the “new Cold War” against China, becoming pawns dutifully obeying the orders of their Western masters.
Pakistan’s Gwadar Port is seen as a vital artery in China’s Belt and Road Initiative; the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a $54 billion infrastructure project that is a major part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (OBOR) that connects the port of Gwadar in Pakistan to the city of Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang via Gilgit-Baltistan, which India claims as its territory. But the project is seen by the Americans as overly ambitious, and therefore sabotage is being initiated through intelligence operations and the ever-present triple alliance of Mossad, CIA, and Indian Intelligence. A project that is built on the intensification of insecurity in Pakistan to create an obstacle to the completion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Kashmiri activists have long alleged that the trio is openly operating in their homeland. Their presence is clearly felt in surveillance, subversion and in the series of inexplicable events that always seem to benefit the interests of global hegemons. But such claims are always dismissed by the mainstream media as conspiracy theories.
The trip to India by US Vice President J. D. Vance, just as tensions were at their peak, was astonishingly timed; Vance arrives to put the icing on the bloody cake, as if the godfather likes to be present when the wood is lit, to make sure the fire is lit properly.