One Month Later – What Really Happened in Pahalgam?
Foreign Conspiracy Behind Indo-Pak Tensions?
- Divide and Rule – A Strategy Repeated
- Arms Trade, Geopolitics, and Media Narratives
- The Puppeteer Theory – Who Really Benefited?
Justice Katju reflects on the Pahalgam killings, blaming foreign powers for orchestrating the violence to fuel India-Pakistan hostility and arms trade.
One month since Pahalgam killings
By Justice Markandey Katju
Today, 22nd May 2025 marks a month since the Pahalgam killings of 26 Hindu tourists on 22nd April. Now that the hurly burly is done and the 4 day war fought between India and Pakistan is over, what does one make of all this ?
I am giving my own understanding.
In my opinion this whole episode was masterminded by some foreign power ( or powers ) who want hostility between India and Pakistan to continue, with two objectives :
(1) India and Pakistan ( which are really one nation, only artificially divided by a British swindle in 1947 on the basis of the bogus two nation theory ) should not reunite and emerge as a modern industrial giant, like another China, for which it has all the potential with its huge pool of technical talent and immense natural resources, and thus, with their cheap labour, become a big rival to Western industries. So creating hostility between Hindus and Muslims is necessary for preventing reunification.
(2) The foreign arms manufacturing companies should increase their profits by increased sales ( India is the biggest buyer of foreign arms in the world )
I am giving below only one technique which the British rulers used to create Hindu-Muslim animosity.
They would use their agent provocateurs ( hirelings ) to kill a cow, throw its carcass secretly at night in a Hindu temple, and write on the temple wall '' Allaho Akbar ''. Next morning when Hindus got up and saw the carcass of the cow, and the writing on the wall, they would think all Muslims are devils.
Similarly, their agent provocateurs would kill a pig, throw its carcass secretly at night in a mosque, and write on the mosque wall '' Jai Bajrang Bali '' or something like that. Next morning when Muslims got up and saw the carcass of the pig, and the writing on the wall, they would think all Hindus are devils.
What happened on 22nd April 2025 is only a repetition of the British policy of divide and rule. Just as what the Britishers did using their local agents, some foreign powers have organised and got done on 22nd April, using some local agents of theirs, like a puppeteer using his puppets.
The terrorists who selectively killed the 26 Hindus on 22nd April, later disappeared into the neighbouring jungles. Who were they, Indians or Pakistanis, Kashmiris or non Kashmiris, who supplied them the weapons they used, did they have a mastermind who kept in the background, etc are all unknown, and will probably never be known.
But what can easily be known by drawing rational inference is that their motive was to create hostility between Hindus and Muslims ( since selectively Hindus were identified and killed ) and between India and Pakistan.
And sure enough, within a very short time after the incident almost all Indian channels had declared Pakistan as the culprit, like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland shouting '' Off with his head '' without holding any trial ( see from 23 minutes onwards in this video) :
And the 'madaari' sitting in some foreign country, who orchestraed the whole show, is laughing at the two monkeys fighting with each other.
(Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman of the Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own.)
