The apocalyptic remains of a school bus in Khuzdar and the remnants of bloodied children’s belongings were scattered across the desolate road. Balochistan resonated with the screams of mothers and fathers whose angels were brutally snatched from their warm, loving embrace. This isn’t drama fueled solely by terrorism, but rather another chapter in the savage proxy war India wages against Pakistan. In countering Pakistan’s growth and its attempts to become a regional power, India has embraced savagery as a form of statecraft. The bombing of the Army Public School (APS) school bus in Khuzdar, carried out by the RAW-backed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), marks an act of spine-chilling terror and violence unleashed on innocent victims by the most cowardly of adversaries. Such acts display fear, not strength. A single incident does not define Pakistan. The brutal Jaffar Express hijacking earlier this year and countless other well-planned strikes across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa illustrate how India sponsors devastating schemes against the Pakistani state.
Dossiers of evidence, along with clear confessions and declassified intelligence on subversive operations, provide proof of India’s history of terrorism, emphasizing the bankruptcy of human morals and ethics for the BLA and its ally, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. Testimony revealed the most significant claim regarding Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, an active officer in the Indian Navy, who was captured in Balochistan. His confession offers strong evidence that India is at the forefront of state-sanctioned terrorism.
Outside of financing terrorism, trained operatives and Afghan safe havens have been intentionally positioned to exploit Pakistan’s western front. While India portrays itself as a democracy on the global stage, it is, in reality, a regional terror group disguised as a diplomatic entity.
The Jaffar Express attacks were a poorly concealed, albeit precise, attempt by the Indian deep state to sustain the damaging narrative of civilian unrest in Balochistan in early 2025. Children were the targets in Khuzdar, not soldiers, not fighters. The goal is obvious: to inflict massive damage and restrain Pakistan’s ability to retaliate through traditional military conflict. These are the acts of a power on the decline. They are desperate flails of a drowning hegemon that is trying desperately to cling to delusions of control. Every blast is a new order from New Delhi’s intelligence supremos: Should we fail to dominate Pakistan, we shall dismantle it from the inside.
However, this is where things took a very different turn. On May 10, 2025, Pakistan arrived with all its military strength and confronted the Indian superpower bluff. Pakistan repaid India’s relentless hybrid hostilities with interest. Additionally, alongside its military capabilities, Pakistan launched a series of counter-terror narrative raids, which instigated a paradigm shift. Operation Bunyanum Marsoos was and remains not just a military triumph. It represented the strategic decapitation of India’s entire 5GW apparatus in the region.
In one decisive campaign, Pakistan rounded up major proxy networks, thwarted hostile cyber incursions, and dismantled India’s flagitious operations such as Operation Sindoor. All while flipping the global narrative. India did not just sustain damage from Pakistani missiles; it was metaphorically dealt a bloody nose through meticulously crafted facts, hybrid narrative strategies, and decades of unilateral Indian subversive efforts in the region, which collapsed in mere days.
This was not just Pakistan’s victory. It relied on a more comprehensive security framework taking shape: the Sino-Pakistani alliance. An alliance built on mutual trust, a shared perception of threats, and interdependence that truly undermined India’s strategic dominance in the region. It is being restructured in terms of intelligence integration, collaborative surveillance systems, and cyber deterrence frameworks that offer little hope for India’s unlawful strategies. India’s rogue playbook has been stripped of its traditional linchpins: strategic opacity, covert patronage, and clandestine sponsorship. This shift arises from the tactical exposure of real-time intelligence coordination between Islamabad and Beijing, effectively neutralizing enemy assets. Game on.
The recent ambush in Khuzdar represents India’s most desperate attempt to regain its dignity in a war zone where it remains morally and strategically battered. Shooting children as a means of diplomatic and strategic retribution for feeling embarrassed is not retaliation; it is the lowest form of cowardly nihilism.
India’s strategy resembles that of a primitive brute. Since dominating Pakistan’s military and narrative spaces is impossible, India seeks vengeance on innocent lives instead. But mark these words: India will pay. This payment will not come through knee-jerk bloodshed but through relentless, methodical, and strategically designed obliteration of every proxy India possesses. Whether it’s the BLA in Balochistan or the TTP in KP, their utility is about to be depleted.
However, this war must remain at the forefront with its human cost. The people of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have endured this suffering for far too long. History, coupled with rampant disinformation and funded militancy, feeds the terror campaign. But force is not the answer. Inclusion is needed to heal the wounds. The next phase of anti-terrorism must be compassion in the form of development, dignity, and constructive dialogue. Enemies can be dealt with using guns, but ideologies require justice to bury.
Pakistan must not, under any circumstances, fall into a total securitization trap. India’s ideological wars’ irrelevance is a true victory. That means rewriting the social contract in KP and Balochistan. Real counterinsurgency means creating fair political representation and equitable economic development alongside roads, schools, and hospitals. Pakistan should render these regions ungovernable for insurgents, not by militarizing them, but by democratizing opportunity and justice.
At the same time, India’s self-image as a regional policeman is fast unraveling. Its brutal record in illegally occupied Kashmir, Interference in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, coupled with decades of state-enabled terrorism in Pakistan, and assassination campaigns against Khalistani leaders in Canada, UK and USA expose the duplicity behind the “largest democracy”. It plays the victim in the West while financing mercenaries to kill children savagely. It shouts about cross-border terrorism at global forums while running camps and networks for precisely that purpose. This sort of hypocrisy isn’t one that Pakistan needs to surrender to.
The global community can no longer overlook India’s growing menace, and remaining silent is complicity. Pakistan’s efforts to diplomatically tackle the issue should be heightened, and every relevant global forum, like the UN, OIC, and regional forums, must be provided with tangible evidence. We need to reveal the war crimes India commits through proxies. The demand is not just for justice, but for accountability. India’s hybrid operations, proxy terrorism, and disinformation warfare pose a threat not only to Pakistan but to the entire South Asian region.
Even as Pakistan bleeds, it refuses to break. A state that has weathered the storm of internal terrorism is emerging with the capacity to exercise external control. Facing the abyss, Pakistan has come out on the other side, and that notion has now been beaten into them: “no more silence, no more appeasement.” Pakistan intends to protect its territory, people, and future in every conceivable way.
India needs to pay attention. This is not 2008. This is not 2019. The time frame for unchecked hostility has passed. The facade of unchecked aggression has been exposed. Aggression and hostility are no longer unilateral. The narrative of India’s supremacy is outdated. The hybrid war strategy has been dismantled, alongside their discourse on proxies. There is no escaping the condemnation of civilian slaughter.
Retribution for each martyr will not come solely from operations like Bunyanum Marsoos. It will also arise from a strong, united society that disinformation campaigns or covert state attacks cannot undermine. The children of Khuzdar will be avenged, but this will not be born from senseless fury. This is Pakistan’s commitment. For India, the misguided belief that it can exploit Pakistan without consequences has changed irrevocably. Pakistan needs to determine what the “new normal” is for South Asia.
