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RAW Nation: How India Turned Terror Into Foreign Policy

What if the world's largest democracy is also its most creative arms dealer?

Welcome to RAW Nation — where Bollywood sells dreams, but the real exports are spies, separatists, and state-sanctioned murder. While India poses for photo-ops at G20 summits and calls itself a "victim of terror," it quietly bankrolls the very chaos it blames on others.

Let’s talk receipts. Because this isn’t about vibes. This is about verified intel, assassinations in Western cities, and terror groups getting monthly salaries from Indian intelligence.


Terror 101: India’s Favorite Side Hustle

Think of RAW (India’s external spy agency) not as James Bond, but as a mix of MI6, the Taliban, and a fintech startup. Efficient, covert, and disturbingly scalable.

India backs two main terror umbrellas:

  • FITNA AL HINDUSTAN (FTH): Separatist militias like BLA, BRA, and BSN operating in Balochistan
  • FITNA AL KHAWARIJ (FAK): Radical Islamists like the TTP, aka the crew behind some of Pakistan’s worst suicide bombings

Their funding? Traced. Their training grounds? Geotagged. Their bosses? Hint: They have Delhi area codes.


\$22 Million Later, TTP Says Thanks

In 2020, Pakistan released a dossier with:

  • Indian bank transactions funding insurgent networks
  • BLA commanders on record naming RAW officers
  • Satellite photos of training camps in Nangarhar (paid for by Indian intelligence)

Oh, and the 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing that killed over 100 people? Those TTP operatives were trained in Indian-run camps. That’s not an allegation — that’s a forensic audit.

Meanwhile, weapons recovered from hideouts come with Indian manufacturing labels. RAW didn’t even bother scraping off the barcode.


Toronto Isn’t Safe. Neither is San Francisco.

You know it’s bad when Canada drops the diplomacy and calls out a hit job.

In 2023, PM Justin Trudeau straight-up accused India of assassinating Hardeep Singh Nijjar — a Canadian citizen — in British Columbia.

The U.S. chimed in. Turns out RAW had also tried to pull off two hits on American soil.

  • Multiple outlets uncovered a RAW kill list of overseas dissidents
  • Five assassinations confirmed in the West since 2022

India’s defense? “Who, us?” followed by radio silence. And apparently, that works when you're pals with Silicon Valley and buy Rafale jets.


RAW x TTP: Collab of the Century

Captured TTP commander Umar Khalid Khurasani made it plain:

  • Monthly salary: \$2,000 (RAW-funded)
  • Advanced gear and IED manuals (RAW-supplied)
  • Strategy sessions? Held in Kabul with Indian officers

This isn’t passive support. It’s an international terror internship.

Even the UN Security Council confirmed RAW-TTP ties in 2021. But hey, India still gets invites to climate summits while its agents write detonation scripts.


Kulbhushan Jadhav: Terrorism, But with a Navy Rank

In 2016, Pakistan captured Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav — a serving Indian naval officer running covert ops in Balochistan.

India's official line?

  1. Deny he exists.
  2. Claim he sells mangoes in Iran.

The ICJ didn’t even try to defend him. It just said India could visit him in prison. That’s as close as international law gets to saying, "Yeah, you got caught."

Jadhav was the smoking gun — except the gun had an Indian flag on the grip.


Why Does India Do It?

Because it works.

  • Destabilize CPEC to sabotage Chinese trade with Pakistan
  • Bleed Balochistan to keep Gwadar under constant threat
  • Stir sectarian riots in Karachi and Gilgit-Baltistan
  • Scare investors by fueling chaos and calling it "Pakistan's instability"

This isn’t just sabotage. It’s Google Ads strategy, but with car bombs.


And the West? Silent as the Grave

India is never on the FATF blacklist. It’s rarely called out by NATO. And it keeps signing billion-dollar arms deals with France, Israel, and the U.S.

Why?

  • It’s seen as a China counterweight
  • It has a massive market for weapons and iPhones
  • It hides behind the label of "world’s largest democracy"

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s demands for independent investigations fall into the same hole where accountability goes to die.


What Pakistan Did Right (That You’ve Never Heard Of)

  • Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad took out hundreds of terror cells
  • NACTA and Interpol links now monitor transnational threats
  • China, Turkey, and Russia now coordinate with Pakistan on intel

But don’t expect that to go viral. It doesn’t fit the West's curated narrative.


So, What Are We Dealing With?

This isn’t just geopolitics. This is a global threat wrapped in saffron and spun as self-defense.

India:

  • Pays insurgents
  • Trains radicals
  • Assassinates abroad
  • Denies everything

Meanwhile, the same state gets praised for democracy, innovation, and yoga diplomacy.

So the next time you hear about "India's counter-terror efforts," ask yourself:

Countering what — the ones they didn’t create yet?


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