Readers of this column know that my arguments are rooted in facts and data. I go where evidence leads me. What I am about to argue in this piece, however, is based on circumstantial evidence. The scenario analysis that this essay will offer is incumbent on connecting the disparate dots. Nothing about the current India-Pakistan crisis, prima facie, makes sense. The heinous crime, the religious profiling of victims, seemingly incongruent developments ahead of the terror attack, Pakistan’s strange behavior, the Narendra Modi government’s response and even the Opposition’s reaction cannot be fully understood unless we delve beneath the surface and…
