Pakistan

Investigators found that Hindu identity helped recruits avoid suspicion while money, fake profiles, visas and emotional manipulation drew influencers, workers and students into Pakistan-linked surveillance and propaganda networks across several Indian states.

"We are not obliged to talk about news stories whose facts remain questionable," retorted a senior Pakistani spokesperson.

Police stated, "Ahad was in contact with Pakistan-based handlers and was planning to execute a major incident in the country."

Pakistan has gained notoriety for the persecution of its minorities, which includes both Hindus and Sikhs.

Pakistan’s sudden embrace of the pre-Islamic history of the Indian subcontinent is pretentious, agenda-driven, a tactic of retrofitting facts to appropriate the history of ancient India. One or two pre-partition name changes do not change the fact that Pakistan’s foundation is still rooted in the Two-Nation Theory that essentially says that Muslims cannot co-exist with Hindus.

The early release of Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed has triggered widespread outrage in Britain. Despite losing his British citizenship, a loophole in the 1971 Immigration Act and diplomatic resistance from Pakistan currently prevent his immediate deportation.