Anticipating pressure from Biden, Pakistan accuses India of sponsoring terror to try create a false equivalence. My latest for The Daily Guardian https://thedailyguardian.com/anticipating-pressure-from-biden-pakistan-accuses-india-of-sponsoring-terror/

As Pakistan is cornered internationally over sponsoring terrorism in forums like FATF and the incumbent Biden administration is likely to tweak the US-Taliban deal putting in a small contingent of US troops, a visibly worried Pakistan is making such claims

Pakistan's military establishment is facing pro-democracy protests from the PDM and increased protests by Baloch and Pashtuns over human rights violations, this is a diversionary tactic

Sections in the US are showing irritation at increased violence in Afghanistan by the Pakistan-backed Taliban. Pakistan aims to drag India’s name into sponsoring terrorism to get a clean chit

Afghanistan has rejected these claims and proposed a UN commission to investigate

Pakistan’s military establishment is also worried about the recent bonhomie between MQM(L) led by Altaf Hussain, who ruled the roost over vital port-city Karachi and Hyderabad once, and separatist Sindhi groups like Shafi Burfat led JSMM (Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz)

Mohajir and Sindhi groups, even non-separatist, have typically been at loggerheads fighting pitched street battles

Pakistan’s military establishment is bringing back former MQM leaders to form a new minus-Altaf Grand Mohajir Alliance like it did with PSP and the MQM-Haqiqi faction in the past. They have offered them amnesty, permission to reopen sealed businesses and money in return

Haider Abbas Rizvi has already reached Pakistan. Nadeem Nusrat & Wasey Jalil are planning to go back soon. Pakistan’s military establishment is trying to gather them all on one platform against Altaf Hussain and playing Mohajir card as Altaf Hussain plays the Sindhudesh card