Following the revelations made by Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), regarding the Pulwama incident, Pakistan has demanded a response from the Indian government.
The Foreign Office released a statement saying that Malik's comments, who was governor during the terrorist attack in Pulwama, have once again vindicated Pakistan's position on the attack.
According to FO, "His disclosures show how the Indian leadership has routinely used the boogeyman of Pakistani terrorism to advance their phony victimhood narrative and the Hindutva agenda, clearly for domestic political gains."
The Foreign Office also expressed the hope that the world would take notice of the most recent discoveries and see that India was waging a deceptive propaganda war against Pakistan out of self-serving political motives.
The statement stated that "it is time India be held accountable for the actions that imperiled regional peace in the wake of the Pulwama attack," adding that Islamabad would keep refuting Delhi's false narrative and would act firmly and responsibly in the face of various provocations.
Former government official Malik claimed in an interview that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hushed him about the security failings that resulted in the 2019 Pulwama assault.
The former governor claimed Modi committed the act so he could profit from it and pin the attack on Pakistan while disguising India's own errors. The request for the soldiers to be airlifted had been denied by the Home Ministry, and the sanitization before the transfer by road was ineffective, according to Malik, who blamed the attack on the "incompetence and negligence of the Indian system" and the CRPF.
According to Malik, the plan was to use the incident to boost the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) electoral prospects. "I had a sense that all of this onus will be diverted towards Pakistan, so it's better to keep quiet," Malik stated.
According to reports, the attack on February 14, 2019, on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway in the Awantipora area of the Pulwama district of the IIOJK resulted in the deaths of approximately 40 Indian soldiers from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the injuries of numerous others.
About 20 kilometers outside Srinagar's main city, the troops were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated as a convoy of military vehicles passed by.