Meanwhile, a Moscow-based independent US analyst Andrew Korybko noted that not only has Pakistan denied India’s accusation, which was to be expected, but top officials surprisingly made two self-discrediting claims.Ishaq Dar, who doubles as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, remarked that those who carried out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam district on April 22 might be freedom fighters, he said.Whatever one’s views might be about the Kashmir conflict, it’s an indisputable act of terrorism to massacre tourists, not to mention on the basis of their religion.Speculating that the perpetrators ‘might be freedom fighters’ discredits bonafide freedom fighters across the world and tacitly justifies terrorism, Korybko wrote in his newsletter on ‘Substack’, an online platform.The second self-discrediting claim to be made by a top Pakistani official about the Pahalgam terrorist attack came from Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who told Al Jazeera media outlet that what happened on that dark day might be a ‘false flag operation’, he said.”Upon reflecting more on what Dar and Asif said, observers will notice a glaring contradiction in that the first strongly insinuated approval of the Pahalgam attack by speculating that the perpetrators ‘might be freedom fighters’, while the second strongly disapproves of the attack and blames it all on India.”These scenarios are mutually exclusive and intellectually insulting, and the fact that top Pakistani officials can’t get their story straight suggests that they’re clumsily trying to cover up their side’s complicity,” Korybko wrote.
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