Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Wednesday noted that despite the passage of a year, India has failed to provide any evidence for its allegations against Pakistan over the Pahalgam attack.
On April 22, 2025, armed gunmen attacked a tourist site in India-held Kashmir’s Pahalgam, killing 26 people. India swiftly blamed Pakistan and used the attack as pretext to sever diplomatic ties and launch missile strikes inside Pakistan, killing several civilians and security personnel.
In retaliation, Pakistan downed seven Indian fighter jets and dozens of drones. The conflict ended after nearly a week with a ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States.
“To this day, India has not presented any solid evidence or proof regarding the Pahalgam incident, nor has it offered satisfactory explanations,” Tarar said in a televised statement. Recalling that India had refused to accept Pakistan’s offer for a neutral and transparent investigation into the attack, he said this raised “serious questions and suggests that the incident may have been a false flag operation.”
Maintaining that this reflects “a mindset that is hollow—driven by false pride, arrogance and greed,” he vowed this would be India’s last “false flag” operation. “It will not dare to carry out such false flag operation again,” he asserted.
Regretting that India had handled the matter “through empty slogans and in a very crude manner,” he said Pakistan was itself a victim of terrorism and had expressed full sympathy” with the civilians killed in the Pahalgam attack. He also questioned how local police had registered a case within “10 minutes of the incident,” adding think-tanks had raised questions about the lack of security at the site.
“Furthermore, without evidence, without investigation and without proper inquiry, the blame was immediately placed on Pakistan,” he noted, adding “baseless and fabricated propaganda” becomes very difficult to sell. “To this day, the world continues to ask questions and India has no answers to give,” he said. “India’s issue is that it presents its internal matters as external ones and its external matters as internal. A clear example of this is terrorism,” he stressed.
According to Tarar, terrorism remains India’s internet issue but it continues portraying it as an external problem. Conversely, he said, the Kashmir issue is an “international issue but India presents it as an internal one.”
Criticizing India’s media for showing its “ugly face” by spreading “propaganda,” he alleged all India’s institutions had been “politicized” and suppressed minorities. He also noted several instances of India’s alleged involvement in transnational terrorism, including the killings of Sikh leaders abroad. “So terrorism is part of India’s state policy and they continue to follow it,” he maintained.
Reiterating Islamabad’s allegations of Delhi’s involvement in terrorism on Pakistani soil, he said Pakistan routinely shared such evidence with the international community. “In many terrorist incidents, India’s involvement appears here and there, but we are strongly countering them,” he said, warning India to remember that any “misadventure of any kind will be met with a firm, decisive and swift response.”
Emphasizing that the government would “take every possible step for the defense of the country,” the information minister claimed India’s policies had left it globally isolated even as Pakistan—under the leadership of P.M. Shehbaz Sharif and Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir—advanced its mission of peace.