One statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Madhubani, Bihar — a bold warning that India would respond to Pakistan’s provocations “beyond their imagination” — has left Pakistan trembling. That’s understandable. A habitual rogue state getting called out and threatened with real consequences is enough to send its generals scurrying for cover.
What’s not understandable — and far more disgraceful — is why the Indian Opposition, especially the Congress and its allies, appear even more rattled than Pakistan itself.
Instead of standing solidly behind the government in this hour of national crisis, Congress is busy demanding a special Parliament session to discuss the Pahalgam massacre. Why? Whose cause are they serving by trying to derail India’s retaliation plans? When the nation’s top leadership — the Prime Minister, the Defence and Home Ministers, the External Affairs and Finance teams — are coordinating a tough military and diplomatic response, the Opposition chooses this moment to play petty politics. It is no exaggeration to say they are emboldening Pakistan with their antics.
The brazenness with which Congress and its partners are undermining national interest today is breathtaking. Their selective outrage, their desperation to embarrass the Modi government even at the cost of India’s security, exposes their true priorities: power over patriotism.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the situation is dire. Reports suggest that General Asim Munir — the same loudmouth Army Chief who issued provocative threats before the Pahalgam massacre — has gone into hiding. His family, it seems, has already been quietly moved to the United States, fearing an imminent Indian strike on key Pakistani military assets. So much for the so-called “brave” Pakistan Army.
Adding to Islamabad’s woes, one of Shehbaz Sharif’s cabinet colleagues recently admitted publicly that Pakistan trains and exports jihadis for cross-border terrorism. This confession should have been a bombshell at the UN Security Council. Even China, Pakistan’s so-called “iron brother,” has chosen to look the other way, reluctant to get dragged into another unwinnable conflict. Pakistan’s expectation that China would rescue them, just like Russia or Hamas’s backers dreamt of salvation, has turned into a pipe dream.
Against this backdrop of Pakistani panic and global isolation, Congress’s behavior is nothing short of treachery.
Take Mani Shankar Aiyar, for example. This perennial apologist for Pakistan — and, incidentally, a refugee from Pakistan himself — has once again found a way to blame the Partition and India’s problems on anyone but the real culprits: Gandhi and Nehru, the Congress icons who bungled and botched India’s freedom struggle into a bloody partition. Aiyar’s sympathies lie not with the victims of terror, but with the perpetrators across the border.
The fake Gandhis who now run the Congress — puppets of globalist forces like George Soros — have in the past sought foreign intervention to destabilize India’s elected government. They lobbied the Biden administration to “save Indian democracy,” but with Donald Trump’s return to the White House looking inevitable, that foreign lifeline, too is slipping away.
The truth is simple: Congress knows that if Modi is allowed to act with full force, Pakistan will be dealt a blow so severe it may not recover. Pakistan’s hollow threats about its nuclear arsenal are laughable when you consider that their economy is in ruins, their ammunition stockpiles would barely last three days, and their foreign reserves have all but dried up. Even their traditional backers — Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China — have little appetite to bail them out. Only Turkey seems mildly interested, and even that support is lukewarm at best.
Meanwhile, voices from inside Pakistan’s oppressed regions are growing louder. The Prime Minister of Balochistan has openly called on India to support their freedom movement, reminding the world that Balochistan never willingly joined Pakistan. The dream of an independent Balochistan — and the end of Pakistan as we know it — is closer to reality than ever before.
The Modi government has taken a decisive “now or never” stance. No amount of Congress chest-thumping, no amount of Opposition crocodile tears, will change that. The people of India can see through this charade: when the nation needs unity, Congress offers sabotage; when the nation needs courage, Congress displays cowardice.
Pakistan is shivering. Its generals are fleeing. Its government is begging the world for mercy. And back home, the Indian Opposition is busy stabbing India in the back.
There’s a word for this — betrayal.
