Pakistan Pulls the Trigger, the World Looks Away
The bodies weren’t even cold in Pahalgam when the world began drafting its familiar eulogies. Twenty-six lives, mostly Indian, cut down by terrorists in Kashmir’s once-bustling tourist belt. Mothers. Children. A Nepali tourist who had dreams of returning home. What followed was the usual diplomatic theatre: “We condemn the act of terror,” they said. “Our thoughts are with the victims.” Words so overused, so devoid of courage, they could’ve been recycled from any of the 100+ Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks India has endured over the decades.
And yet again, not a single government had the spine to name the country behind the bloodbath: Pakistan. The same Pakistan whose military nurtures terror outfits like family, whose intelligence agency trains them, funds them, and then dispatches them across the border to do the dirty work while Islamabad rehearses denials in front of bathroom mirrors.
What exactly does the world need for moral clarity? A video of the attackers toasting with ISI officers? Terrorists wearing Pakistani military uniforms? Perhaps the dead need to be white-skinned Westerners for the condemnation to come with some teeth.
Let’s call this what it is: the world is enabling Pakistan’s terror apparatus. Every time a Lashkar-e-Taiba gunman slaughters civilians and the global community responds with a blank-faced “we’re monitoring the situation,” Pakistan gets the message: “You’re good. Keep going.”
This isn’t neutrality. It’s cowardice dressed in diplomatic linen. It’s complicity with terror, sanitized by bureaucratic jargon.
India, on the other hand, has done everything the world claims to respect.
We didn’t carpet bomb Lahore. We didn’t send suicide squads into Karachi. We walked into the halls of Geneva, New York, Brussels, and handed over evidence—dossiers, maps, intercepts, testimony. We stood on international platforms and pleaded for the global conscience to awaken.
We conducted surgical strikes. We banned Pakistani actors and cricketers. We repealed articles. We fought wars. We buried martyrs. We asked for nothing but truth and support. And what did we get?
Global cowardice.
When Pulwama happened, the U.S. offered condolences and resumed defense deals with Pakistan.
When Uri happened, the world warned India not to escalate.
When Poonch happened, Europe sent trade envoys to Islamabad.
And now after Pahalgam, as 26 people are cremated or buried, what does India get? Silence. Deafening, cowardly, hypocritical silence.
Why? Because Pakistan is useful.
To America, it’s a strategic pawn in the Great Game against China. To China, it’s a permanently indebted vassal. To the Islamic bloc, it’s a badge of unity, even if its soil grows jihad like crops. And to Europe? It’s just far enough away not to matter.
The truth is inconvenient. So they ignore it.
They won’t call Pakistan a terror state, even though its generals host terrorist leaders like state guests. They won’t freeze Pakistani bank accounts, even though terror funds move through them. They won’t sanction Islamabad, but they’ll flag India for internet shutdowns in Kashmir.
Let’s flip the script.
What if Indian-trained gunmen had gunned down tourists in Islamabad?
What if India had given safe haven to the Taliban?
What if India denied visas to Pakistani cancer patients, as Pakistan just did to Indians?
There would be outrage. Sanctions. Emergency UN meetings. But when Pakistan does it? Everyone suddenly remembers how complicated geopolitics is.
India has been patient. Too patient.
We’ve played the responsible democracy. We’ve absorbed the pain, buried the dead, and extended olive branches. But the time has come to ask: Is our restraint being mistaken for weakness? Is our diplomacy feeding a delusion that the world will ever grow a spine?
Let’s be blunt: If you don’t name the butcher, you are complicit in the killing. Every country that refuses to call out Pakistan is guilty of moral surrender. Every think tank that says “both sides must de-escalate” is washing blood with bleach. Every UN statement that refuses to name the terror sponsor is a betrayal dressed as balance.
Pakistan has pulled the trigger again. And again. And again. And the world—rich, democratic, powerful—has looked away every single time.
History won’t just remember the killers. It will remember the ones who stayed silent as they killed.
