Bangladesh, May 6 -- On April 22, 2025, the serene town of Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir a jewel of Indias natural heritage was turned into a graveyard. Twenty-six Indian tourists, many of them women and children, were gunned down in a cowardly terrorist assault. As the news unfolded, so did the predictable choreography: statements of condemnation, candlelight vigils, and the usual finger-pointing toward Pakistan. But this time, that narrative is not enough. This time, the evidence and the silence demand a more courageous question: Is China the real hand behind the horror of Pahalgam?

For decades, Indias national security discourse has focused justifiably on Pakistan as the primary exporter of jihadist terror. Pakistans military intellig...