Islamabad: In yet another deeply troubling move, India has once again weaponized counter-terrorism for political propaganda and this time dragging the name of Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir into a fabricated digital terror narrative.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Indian media and Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) claim that a woman arrested in Bengaluru, India, allegedly praised Pakistan’s military chief and spread extremist content online linked to Al-Qaeda. This sensationalist allegation, however, reeks of political scripting designed to malign Pakistan without any verifiable proof.
India’s repeated attempts to artificially link Pakistan’s military leadership to terror plots represent a dangerous abuse of international counter-terrorism frameworks. Instead of addressing its own internal radicalization, growing communal violence, and saffron terrorism, India exports blame across the border conveniently using fabricated arrests, media leaks, and emotional trigger words like “Ghazwa-e-Hind” to rally domestic support and vilify Pakistan internationally.
By politicizing the name of General Asim Munir, a professional soldier with a firm public stance against all forms of terrorism, India is undermining the credibility of multilateral counter-terrorism mechanisms. This is not merely a bilateral issue but a global one. Such propaganda-driven accusations dilute the sanctity of factual threat assessments, making real counter-terror efforts weaker, distracted, and vulnerable to manipulation.
While Indian authorities make baseless claims about foreign handlers, they turn a blind eye to radicalized Hindutva elements within their own soil — including RSS-linked mobs, lynching gangs, and online cells promoting genocide, hate, and religious apartheid.
The same Indian state that accuses others refuses to investigate open calls for ethnic cleansing by Indian politicians, bulldozer justice against minorities and real evidence of Hindutva-linked terrorism, including the Malegaon, Samjhauta, and Mecca Masjid blasts.
The mention of General Syed Asim Munir in alleged online posts by an Indian suspect is clearly an orchestrated attempt to create psychological warfare, plant fabricated associations and justify India’s expanding hybrid war against Pakistan digitally, diplomatically and militarily. This narrative is not evidence, it’s exploitation and it directly threatens international cooperation in the fight against real terror.
The world must take note of India’s using domestic arrests to launch international smear campaigns, publishing unverified and sensational details in pliant media and undermining genuine global counter-terrorism efforts with fabricated links to Pakistan’s state apparatus. This is not counter-terrorism but this is counter-truth.
