Pakistan’s 78-Year Terror Playbook: How Kashmir Became World’s Longest

Pakistan has transformed Kashmir into the world’s longest-running terror-export project, according to a report published on Saturday, which argues that Western nations’ portrayal of the 1947 events in Jammu and Kashmir as a mere “territorial conflict” has allowed Islamabad to act with impunity for decades.

Swedish human rights defender Michael Arizanti, writing for the UK-based publication The Milli Chronicle, asserted that on 22 October 1947, Pakistan launched Operation Gulmarg, a state-orchestrated invasion disguised as a tribal uprising. Armed Pashtun militias, supported by regular Pakistan Army units, entered Kashmir “with one mandate: terror,” he wrote, describing the ensuing atrocities, mass killings, and sexual violence, as acts that would today meet the legal definition of crimes