India, April 28 -- It is well past midnight-infact the early hours of morning-and I just can't sleep. Not after hearing of your gruesome, senseless killing of innocent people in my motherland. You sick people.

I write to you as a furious, broken-hearted Indian Muslim. A man whose soul is torn between unimaginable grief and blazing rage. Because when you attacked civilians in Pahalgam, you didn't just target a place-you pierced through the heart of every Indian who still believes in unity, in peace, in justice.

And I speak not just as an individual, but as the son of a family that has lived and breathed service to this nation. Patriotism runs through my veins. My father, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah, retired as the Deputy Chief of Army Staff...