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Pahalgam terrorist attack: Pakistan's ISI targets Hindus, tests India

At some point, the ISI's calculation has been, Hindus will rise in reprisal against their own minorities. That's a crisis they've been conjuring up in India. A nation at war with itself

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A woman lying next to the body of her husband, who was killed in the Pahalgam terror attacks (Photo: Shutterstock)

Shekhar Gupta

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One thing you can’t accuse Pakistan and its intelligence agency, the ISI, of being is unpredictable. They have been, on the contrary, entirely predictable over the past 45 years since they started using terrorism as a weapon against India.
 
First, let’s explain this strategy. Many descriptions have been used for it over time — proxy war, death by a thousand cuts, violent jihad, and more.
 
There is, however, one thread running through the ISI’s method: The use of Pakistani jihadi Lashkars or terror proxies from among Indian minorities to specifically target Hindus in India.
 
At some point, their calculation has
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