This feels like some sort of deliberate escalation. I suspect that the Indian government knew about the attack in advance and let it happen, in order to facilitate an October 7-esque justification to further antagonize Pakistan and crack down and terrorize occupied Kashmir.
I’m not comfortable claiming that they knew about it in advance but yeah the situation is strange. According to reports a thousand tourists have been sauntering in this remote area which had no security presence. After the attacks, it took the police 45 minutes of hiking to get there.
This feels like some sort of deliberate escalation. I suspect that the Indian government knew about the attack in advance and let it happen, in order to facilitate an October 7-esque justification to further antagonize Pakistan and crack down and terrorize occupied Kashmir.
I’m not comfortable claiming that they knew about it in advance but yeah the situation is strange. According to reports a thousand tourists have been sauntering in this remote area which had no security presence. After the attacks, it took the police 45 minutes of hiking to get there.