A take on India- Pakistan Conflict

On the night of the 22nd of April, during the Pahalgam attack, I spent around 8 hours trying to figure out why it happened. I went through news from both India and Pakistan, from last one month and honestly, it looked like a short-term manufactured conflict. For the past month, Pakistan seemed to be writing the script for the aftermath. Multiple Pakistani politicians suddenly started showing concern and giving speech about the increasing outside population in Kashmir, and so called " demographic invasion and then came Asim Munir’s outrageous speech.

And aftermath of the Pahalgam attack, the exact same narrative was echoed by The Resistance Front, which claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that they did it because around 80,000 mainlanders were living in Kashmir. That’s when I started wondering: what’s the bigger picture here? couldn't figure out then, what could be the reason?

And now, when, we’re at war, right in the middle of the ongoing US-China tariff war and Trump’s worldwide tariff aggression. Western media platforms like CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Business Standard have been constantly pushing the headline: "Pakistan’s Chinese-made jet brought down two Indian fighter aircraft US officials" in their top three stories for the last three days.  Even before just two months ago, US offered India F-16s, which India didn’t agree to.  There is also an important negotiation going on  between India and United State to reduce tariff gaps.

China is also pushing the headlines  "India-Pakistan war has become a study bed for China to observe and test its weapon systems in real time".  Where as Pakistan is dependent on Chinese weaponry and so called US weapon aid to maintain balance of power, on other hand India relies on Russian, French, American and some indigenously developed arms and ammunition.  

If we look at the situation over the past three days, India clearly stated that, Now It doesn't have any reason to escalate further and rest depends on Pakistan. Then suddenly, there’s an IMF bailout of 1 billion dollars for Pakistan,  where US has the highest share of veto power and voting right. It is done right in the middle of an ongoing conflict, where most countries already agreed that Pakistan was responsible for a dirty terrorist attack. 

It reminds me of Trotsky’s quote: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

Look closely and you’ll see. how we become victim of proxy war's.  for them our people are test subjects for arms and ammunition. A region where dominant powers pump currency through arms deals, loan packages, tariffs, and indirectly control our economies to achieve their strategically measured goals. This is how crisis is brought to your houses, even if you don't wish for !

here’s the uncomfortable truth, that we are not as important as we think, in this global capitalist system. We’re not treated as sovereign minds. we’re markets for cheap products, mass-produced food, low-cost labour, and high-cost weaponry, unwanted wars. We are profitable only in our suffering.

So if we continue to fight wars over religion, Pakistan, being Muslim majority versus India being Hindu majority nation, cling to this hatred, what’s the point? In the end, it doesn't matter at all.  It benefits the manufacturer of arms and ammunitions, sponsor's of terrorism,. Give's them purpose to continue their dirty game.

In the end we are South Asia, just the semi-periphery of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world system.