Md Jubair: There is no doubt about the fact that the lives of all Muslims and Kashmiris will be in grave danger with this faction operating as a tool through which India is able to subjugate its minorities without the risk of accountability. So long as tensions rise, a conflict will inevitably ensue and that will have a destabilising impact on the region altogether.

The international community has finally started to take note of the intense prejudice held by the BJP government against its Muslim minorities. Recently, Noam Chomsky explained how Islamophobia has taken its worst, most extremist form in India, where 250 million Muslims have become a persecuted minority. From being subject to ethnic cleansing by religious leaders to discriminatory laws—like the Citizenship Act or the recent ban on Hijabs—put forth by the government, Modi’s government has ensured that the Muslim minority is disadvantaged and isolated completely.

The attacks on Pakistan are another story altogether; Pakistan have presented documented evidence time and again of India funding the TTP and providing it with the ammunition needed to launch attacks on the country. Ever since the ceasefire has been ended by the government, there has been an upwards trend of countless districts being targeted by the TTP.

To encourage this instability in a region where other actors are desperately trying to secure a peaceful future is criminal and the international community is very aware of this fact currently. Should India continue on this violent path, it too will suffer along with the region. Economic sanctions, political interventions and all sorts of other restrictions may be imposed if this dangerous trajectory is continued upon by New Delhi. If not for the sake of the millions of lives that are at stake, the security situation of the region or its neighbors, it should act to protect its own long-term interests; no one benefits from fomenting terror in the region.