While the West has been so concerned that Russia’s war against Ukraine might embolden China, no one thought of the evil Israel was breeding in Indian minds through its inhumane actions against Palestine.
Prime Minister Modi is replicating Netanyahu’s racist supremacist ideology and action plan for his extremist religious motives against Kashmir and Pakistan. The parallels between Zionism and Hindutva are blatantly obvious, given the ‘counterterrorism’ narrative that India has adopted.
The Pahalgam incident of April 22, like Pulwama in 2019, seems to be an orchestrated event, just like a leaked footage indicated that it was Israeli forces, not Hamas, attacking the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023. From there onwards, Israel propagated the narrative that it was waging war against terrorist outfits in Gaza and the West Bank, using it as an excuse to strike civilian infrastructure, including mosques, schools, and hospitals.
India followed the same pattern in targeting alleged terrorist hideouts in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan, which, in reality, are civilian areas, particularly mosques. Omar Suleiman, in his tweet, rightly said, “Modi is the devil twin of Netanyahu.”
Modi is the twin devil of Netanyahu.
India under a fascist regime clearly wants to take advantage of a world that can’t stop even the most obvious genocide ever.
May Allah protect Pakistan, and the innocent people of the world at the mercy of small tyrants with big weapons.
— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman) May 6, 2025
So, is the world going to let another Gaza happen, or is it time to rid the world of these despotic political figures for whom children are simply collateral damage?
While the West has been maintaining a hands-off policy when it comes to direct involvement in wars, it has crafted new political puppets to wage wars under the banners of ideology and religion. All over the world, Muslims are suffering at the hands of anti-Islam propaganda. These sentiments have gained traction since the 9/11, shaped by Western securitization policies.
So, after the West has had its fair share of violence and military intervention under the guise of counterterrorism, its strategic partners have now adopted similar roles. It is no exaggeration to say that Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations thesis, another product of Western imperialist thought, is largely at play across the world.
So, what were PM Modi’s true objectives behind the attack on Pakistan? History shows that nations seeking global hegemony repeatedly leverage military capabilities to instil fear and consolidate influence. India, the US’s strategic partner and so-called regional security provider, is attempting to climb higher in the global power hierarchy using military adventurism. Secondly, India is acting on its historical desire of ‘Akhand Bharat’, which Hindutva has fueled through its extremist political rhetoric.
However, there is one thing that the world needs to remind PM Modi: India is not waging war against a small nation with no military force; it is attempting to target Pakistan, a country with air power capabilities far superior to India, evident from Pakistan’s response to Indian attacks on from May 7-10, 2025. Pakistan Air Force (PAF) downing six Indian jets, including three Rafales, has stunned the world, raising questions about proficiency of Indian pilots in operating such sophisticated machinery.
At the hands of the PAF, Rafale, the centre of gravity of Indian Air Force, has only received strategic humiliation. In addition to this, the PAF shot down one Mirage 2000, one MiG-29, and one Su-30, exposing India’s vulnerabilities whilst demonstrating PAF’s unmatched combat prowess and professionalism.
After bombs and missiles, India targeted Pakistani cities with Israeli-made Harop drones, highlighting yet another critical factor that after reducing Gaza to rubble and ruin, Israeli weaponry is now being employed against civilians in other parts of the world. Consequently, under Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos, the PAF delivered a crushing response to Indian provocations, targeting 14 air bases, two batteries of S-400 air defense system, and other ground targets including BrahMos missile storage site and several army installations.
Pakistan also shot down the drones with its electronic warfare (EW) capabilities, preventing India from achieving its stated objectives. In non-kinetic resolve, Pakistan launched a series of cyber-attacks, targeting India’s power grids and major official government websites. Both the cyber warfare and EW capabilities are indigenously developed.
Aside from PAF’s aerial capabilities and Pakistan’s technological brilliance, India needs to remember that both states are nuclear powers. When two nuclear powers wage wars, the consequences are not regional but global. India has repeatedly demonstrated that it is not a responsible nuclear power. Had it been one, it would not have orchestrated false flag operations in Kashmir for seven decades.
In its strategic calculations, India believed that through offense it would provoke Pakistan, and put the onus of responsibility for initiating a war with the latter. However, Pakistan did not fall into the trap even once, so India deviously attacked Pakistan under the ubiquitous narrative of counterterrorism.
In most ways, PM Modi reflects Netanyahu’s political playbook. While the PAF has completely shattered the illusion of Indian air dominance, it is time to put an end to violence, waged under the pretense of counterterrorism.
There is a need to reframe the narrative at the global level, shifting discourse from counterterrorism to securitization, mobilizing multilateral forums beyond Western gatekeeping, and exposing the double standards of the rules-based international order.
*The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of TDI.
Maheera Munir
Maheera Munir is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies (CASS), Lahore. She can be reached at info@casslhr.com
