Thread by @bookscache

The events of 9/11 transformed India's priorities as well. India saw an opportunity to use the global consensus against terrorism to malign the freedom struggle in IIOJK. Its objectives were facilitated by two incidents that occurred in quick succession.
#FalseFlagOperations
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First was a militants' attack on the state legislative assembly complex in Srinagar, barely three weeks after 9/11. Two months down the line, five intruders attacked the Indian Parliament building in Delhi. Several Indian parliamentarians were reportedly inside building.
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In the ensuing shoot out, all intruders were killed. The Indian government made a demarche the very next day to our High Commissioner in Delhi that Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad were involved.
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Given the context of these attacks happening in the wake of 9/11, this allegation was most puzzling. After all, how could Pakistan involve itself in such attacks knowing that this would tantamount to attracting negative world attention and placing Pakistan in hot waters, +
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especially given the environment created by 9/11? Were these, then, false-flag operations by India.

#OperationSwiftRetort against Indian #FalseFlagOperations

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or were these used by the Indian government as an opportunity?
to team up with the US to build an impression of Pakistan as a country that harbored militants which were committing terrorism in Kashmir, Afghanistan, and the rest of the world?
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Whatever the rationale had been, the timing of these attacks clearly provided India a reason to scale up propaganda that the Kashmiri struggle was a manifestation of international terrorism.

From memoir of @aizaz1101
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