- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Days after Satya Pal Malik, former governor of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir made some explosive ‘revelations’ in an interview including the Indian government’s alleged failure at the time of the terror attack on an Indian troops’ envoy in Pulwama in what is a Union Territory now, Pakistan issued a statement that Malik’s words “vindicated” its position.
On Sunday (16), Pakistan’s foreign affairs ministry issued a statement saying Malik’s words “demonstrate how the Indian leadership has habitually used the bogey of terrorism from Pakistan to advance its sham victimhood narrative and the Hindutva agenda, clearly for domestic political gains”.
“The latest revelations made by Mr Satya Pal Malik, the so-called former Governor of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), have once again vindicated Pakistan’s stance on the Pulwama Attack of February 2019,” it said.
However, the Pakistani ministry remained silent on Malik asserting that the source of the explosives that were used for carrying out the attack was Pakistani.
While Malik told senior journalist Karan Thapar for The Wire that Modi and India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval had asked him to keep quiet when he raised the lapses in security after the Pulwama disaster and that he felt the intention was to gain electoral benefits for the government by blaming Pakistan, he also said that the amount of explosives (RDX) that the assailant carried in a car could not be done internally and it was Pakistan that arranged it.
He said the Indian side’s lapse was that the explosive-laden vehicle could not located although it had been roaming around.
Pakistan, meanwhile, also said that it will “continue to counter India’s false narrative, and act firmly and responsibly in the face of different provocations”.
