Continued (word limit): How does Pakistan not know about it? I am not justifying the strikes, I certainly think war is bad but looking at the amount of Pakistani disinformation (see Mohammed Zubair's work in Alt News; he was threatened by BJP for his work many times in the past with death threats, but has been a steadfast fact-checker despite that. This time, it's Pakistan.), I'll wait it out. What I do know is that Pakistan has most certainly killed a number of people by indiscriminately shelling across the LoC, killing Sikhs and Muslims living in the border villages of Poonch. I hope India doesn't indulge in any escalation of war, since that will result with misery on both sides.

That said, for the reasons above, equating Pakistan with Palestine and India with Israel is oversimplified at best. To understand India's relationship with Pakistan right from this strike as a symptom of only Hindutva fascism without the context of India's battle with terrorism (excluding groups like the JKLF and HM, as they're different) deep into our country, far from Kashmir, would lead to such absurd positions to take. As always, western leftists remain woefully ignorant of anything from the south and jump onto a simplified Israel/Palestine binary. If anything, Pakistan's systematic persecution of minorities, such as outlawing a non-Muslim PM, defining Muslim to mean Sunni only, disenfranchising Ahmadis, exploiting Hindus in the Sindh region and allowing the blasphemy law to kill people via mob justice on a single accusation is similar to Israel's constitutional apartheid for Palestinians. There are many others. I think Imran Khan tried to enlist an Ahmadi economist in his ministry, but backed down to pressure eventually.

Some sources off the top of my head, will edit later if I get the time- Christopher Snedden's books on Kashmir. Oxford's Lashkar-e-Tayyaba.

This is the last I shall approach this topic. Frankly, it is very annoying to see self proclaimed socialists ban Indian leftists on subs like /thedeprogram who know very little about the nuances of the India/Pakistan relationship and reduce it to Hindu-nationalist salivation. I even saw a comment saying that relocation Kashmiri Pandits was artificial demographic change, when many pro-independence Kashmiris welcome that. (Whether they'd be safe there is another issue.) How native Kashmiri people violently displaced against their will are foreign settlers is beyond me. Either way, it is disgusting and toxic and I shall be blocking most .ml hubs for that reason. Typical westoid ignorance. If the name 'Ajmal Kasab' doesn't mean anything to you, you should listen to others who know better instead of assuming every single Indian is some braindead salivating Hindutvawadi nationalist who cannot think. Can't even bother to pick up a book, smh.