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Social media users decry war-mongering from the other side of the border after 26 Pakistanis killed in Indian attacks.
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n the hours following India’s overnight military strikes on Pakistan that claimed 26 civilian lives, Pakistani social media lit up with anger, grief, and disbelief. The prevailing sentiment — fury at the killing of innocents, and a united front against the targeting of civilian lives to score political points.
Barrister and writer Asad Rahim Khan captured the outrage succinctly in a tweet addressed to Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, who expressed pride in his country’s military escapades without showing any regard for the loss of innocent lives.
“Indian liberalism: murdering a three-year-old girl is worth celebrating the next day. That too to launder a bloody occupation. No Pakistani thinker, on any part of the political spectrum, was calling for war. Useful idiots like these are bigger threats to peacetime,” he tweeted.
This sentiment was echoed across social media, adding to the wave of condemnation as Pakistanis called out Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his administration for attacking six areas in Pakistan, resulting in the deaths of 26 civilians and injuring 46 others without providing any evidence that links Pakistan to the Pahalgam attack.
Many users questioned the moral equivalence India sought to draw between the victims of the Pahalgam attack and those in Pakistan now killed in the strikes.
“Why is India bombing innocent civilians!?” a user asked. “They are innocent just like the people who died in the Pahalgam terror attack. What is the difference between those terrorists and Narendra Modi then?”
Others expressed sheer disbelief that children and families were targeted, emphasising that no one in Pakistan had celebrated the tragedy in Pahalgam.
The contrast, many noted, was now very apparent.
“Not a single Pakistani I saw took joy in the Pahalgam attack. Yet countless Indians are openly celebrating the death of an innocent child. Nothing vindicates the Two Nation Theory more than this,” one user wrote.
Another post read, “No one I know in Pakistan is celebrating Pahalgam and God, I want to believe that apart from these bloodthirsty Twitter vultures, no one across the border is vile enough to rejoice over the killing of a child.”
“A martyred child already. They’re not targeting militants, they’re targeting civilians. Our children. Our homes. This is terrorism,” a user lamented.
British MP Zarah Sultana condemned the Indian strikes, calling them “a violation of international law” and “a grave threat to regional peace.”
“I condemn the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam but no conclusive evidence has been presented linking Pakistan,” she wrote, urging restraint given both nations’ nuclear capabilities.
A user accused Modi of building his vote bank “on the corpse of a toddler slaughtered in his sleep in Bahawalpur.”
“The world should know that India is the aggressor here. India has started this war based on pure fiction and outright lies,” historian Ammar Ali Jan tweeted. “If Pakistan retaliates, it will be a defensive war against a belligerent state that wants to dominate and overpower other nation-states in the region,” he added.
Many users compared India’s actions to Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza, noting that the latter set a dangerous global precedent.
“This is what happens when genocidal actors like Israel are not held accountable. India thinks it can act with the same impunity,” one post read.
A netizen reflected, “Cannot help but wonder to what extent Israel has hollowed out international law for India to feel confident enough to target civilian areas across an internationally recognised border.”
A user compared the Indians celebrating the attack on a mosque and the death of an innocent to Zionists who celebrate death and destruction in Gaza in the name of counter-terrorism.
“Does this remind you of something? Exactly. This is how Israelis celebrate attacks on mosques and the deaths of innocent children. There’s no difference between Zionists and these Hindutva extremists,” they wrote.
“India’s entire approach here has been to scream ‘Islamic terrorist’ and then act with impunity,” a tweet read.
A user reminded everyone that India acted without any evidence whatsoever, “but then again, as we have learned over the last 19 months, evidence isn’t necessary anymore if you wanna bomb people.”
Influencers, writers, and public figures called for peace while underscoring the deep emotional toll of the attack. For many, the strikes serve as a brutal reminder that peace remains a fragile ideal — too often sacrificed at the altar of political expediency and populist ambition.
Huzaifa Nizam, known online for posting historical content on his account Huztory, wrote in his sombre reflection: “A child went to sleep tonight. He was killed by men sitting a hundred miles away who decided to shoot missiles… A child has paid the price for your warmongering, your Arnab Goswamis, and your calls for ‘levelling Pakistani cities’. No country should be allowed to play with Pakistani lives for populism and votes.”
Writer Fatima Bhutto noted, “Anyone looking can see that Pakistanis — constantly demonised — are calling for calm and peace while Indians, politicians to movie stars, are beating loud war drums. Jingoism has no place in the modern world. India is rapidly exposing a false and slippery narrative of itself.”
Content creator Kazi Akbar wrote, “Dear neighbour, don’t start this. We were built in defiance. We exist in retaliation. You don’t want this fight. Let peace be our legacy. Please.”
Social media page Purana Pakistan lauded Pakistanis’ inexhaustible ability to put aside differences during the most trying times. “It astounds me, that no matter how many crises are thrown our way Pakistani people have an inexhaustible ability to put aside their differences and come together when it matters the most.”
It added, “While we can’t control what is subjected to us, we can definitely control how we deal with it. We haven’t ever let anything get the best of us, who said we’re going to start now? The 78 years of our country’s existence bear witness to this. Pakistan Zindabad.”
After 1am on Wednesday, India launched a series of
unprovoked strikes on Pakistan in what it dubbed ‘Operation Sindoor.’ According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 24 impacts were recorded across six localities, resulting in the deaths of 26 Pakistani civilians and injuries to 46 others.
Pakistan responded swiftly. In a statement, the ISPR confirmed that five Indian jets had been downed and an Indian brigade headquarters near the Line of Control destroyed. All inbound and outbound flights were temporarily diverted to Karachi as a precautionary measure.
The attacks come on the heels of Pakistan’s repeated warnings that India might initiate military action following the tragic terror attack in
Pahalgam.