Pakistan predicts Indian 'false flag' attack that triggers face-off with 'nuclear-armed countries'

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | August 22, 2019 | Joel Gehrke

[BenLurkin]

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan...invoked their respective weapons of mass destruction twice, stoking alarm over the arsenals that make the question of who controls the border region of Kashmir one of the “most dangerous” controversies in the world. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tightened his government’s control over the Indian-held portion of Kashmir, arguing that the changes would enhance security in an area simmering with terrorism threats, but Khan suggested that New Delhi is preparing a “false-flag operation” to justify a military conflict with his country.

“Khan has been attempting to turn the tables on India, and characterize it as the malevolent force in the region, while in fact Pakistan is the country that has used terrorism as the primary tool in its foreign policy,” Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Examiner.

Modi echoed those charges when he revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s special status earlier this month on the grounds that “terrorism and separatism” had flourished in the area and that the territory’s autonomy "used as a weapon by Pakistan to incite anti-national feelings against some people in our country.”

Khan argued that India has rejected his attempts to have a productive discussion of the issue, which Indian authorities maintain is a purely internal matter. “There is no point in talking to them,” he said. “All the overtures that I was making for peace and dialogue, I think they took it for appeasement.”

But Roggio, who monitors terrorist groups headquartered in Pakistan as editor of the FDD’s Long War Journal, views Khan’s complaint with suspicion.

“I do not think Khan is sincere about this,” Roggio said. "He is laying the groundwork for plausible deniability for the next attack in India that is carried out by one of Pakistan’s jihadist proxies.”

[allendale]

As much as Pakistan and India hate each other and have been close to widespread conflict, the reputation of nuclear weapons as the ultimate peacekeeper is apparent. No nuclear armed country has suffered a conventional invasion, lost a war, lost territory or has been forced into an unfavorable treaty. When you understand this concept, it is understandable why nations such as Iran ( invaded by Sunni Iraq, eight years of was and 950,000 casualties) and virulent North Korea want nuclear weapons.

[teeman8r]

it ain’t over yet...

there is still time for the nukes to come out.

[CoastWatcher]

I would not be surprised if Pakistan if floating the ‘False Flag’ prediction; to cover an actual attack by Pakistan.

[mikeIII]

The Paks are setting up the “I told you so” moment.