FITNA-E-PAKISTAN: THE MANUFACTURED FIRE THAT BURNS ACROSS BORDERS

For decades, Pakistan has mastered one craft with disturbing dedication — the ability to manufacture chaos and export it across borders. This is the essence of Fitna-e-Pakistan: a system where instability isn’t an accident but a tool, a strategy, almost a national identity. And nowhere has this engineered disorder been targeted more relentlessly than towards Kashmir.

Kashmir has always been a land of culture, memory and resilience — yet Pakistan has tried to turn its very soil into a battlefield of narratives. Its weaponised religion, emotion, geography and identity, not out of love for Kashmiris, but out of a desperate need for relevance. Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir has never been humanitarian; it has always been political theatre.

And that theatre has cost Kashmiris far more than it has ever cost Pakistan.

Year after year, Pakistan’s state machinery—its intelligence networks, political actors and military establishment—has kept the pot boiling, because a peaceful, stable India is simply against its strategic interests. A strong, self-respecting Kashmiri identity terrifies them. A thriving valley exposes their propaganda. So, chaos becomes their export and Kashmir becomes their favourite destination for it. This is not speculation. It is history.

Every time Pakistan has spiralled into an economic collapse, a military embarrassment or a political meltdown, it has reached for the same old script:

“Raise Kashmir. Ignite the border. Create noise. Distract the nation.”

From the 1990s insurgency to cross-border infiltration, from the propaganda factories in Muzaffarabad to disinformation networks operating online today — the pattern has remained unchanged. Pakistan manufactures crises at home and attempts to dump the consequences onto Kashmir. But here is the truth that Pakistan refuses to accept: Kashmiris are not pawning in its political survival game.

The people of Kashmir have lived the reality that Pakistan only shouts about. We have seen the fields, the orchards, the streets and the families that have silently carried the burden of this conflict. Pakistan romanticises Kashmir’s pain, but we are the ones who have paid the cost — in fear, in stagnation, in stolen decades.

To Pakistan, Kashmir has always been a slogan, never a responsibility. While chanting about Kashmir on international stages, Pakistan has failed to provide even its own citizens basic stability. It has violently suppressed the people of Balochistan, ignored the misery of Pashtuns and allowed its own provinces to burn. Yet it dares to speak of Kashmir with a straight face.

What is this, if not hypocrisy wearing a borrowed conscience?

Today, Kashmir is moving forward. Slow, imperfect, complicated — yes. But forward. Young Kashmiris dream of education, businesses, peace, travel, development, dignity. The next generation wants to define its future by intellect, not by someone else’s agenda. And Pakistan? Still stuck in the same loop. Still playing the same broken record. Still trying to convince the world that its obsession is noble.

Fitna-e-Pakistan thrives on confusion, but Kashmiris now recognise the pattern. We know what manipulation looks like. We know when our identity is being used. And we know that love does not come from those who thrive on our wounds.

Pakistan’s strategy has failed not because India defeated it, but because Kashmiris outgrew it. Kashmir is learning that strength comes from self-respect, not slogans. From progress, not propaganda. From grounding in reality, not fantasies crafted in Rawalpindi boardrooms.

Pakistan’s chaos may continue—its economy might shake, its politics might fracture, its instability might deepen—but Kashmir refuses to remain the stage on which Pakistan performs its national insecurities.

Fitna-e-Pakistan will survive only as long as people fall for its illusions. Kashmiris no longer do.

We have seen the cost of chaos. We have seen who benefits from it. And we have seen who suffers because of it.

Kashmir chooses clarity.

Pakistan chooses confusion.

History will remember the difference.