NEW DELHI: Following Pakistan’s repeated failure to breach India’s air defence, Pakistan army chief General Asim Munir may engineer terror attacks inside India.Sources said the possibility of Munir, who as ISI chief scripted the 2019 Pulwama suicide attack, ordering Pakistan’s terror proxies to carry out such strikes was real, adding India was ramping up its defences to prevent them.The sources pointed to the presence of senior Pakistan army personnel at the funeral of terrorists who were killed in India’s strikes on nine terror camps in Pakistan and POK on the night of May 6-7. “It was quite a moment when they dropped the fiction of terrorists being non-state actors; that too, when the global spotlight is trained on them. While it may signal defiance, it underlined their compulsion not to offend the jihadis they have raised and trained to hurt India,” said a senior source. He also said that for Pakistan to desert terrorists at a time when they are grieving, fearful and, perhaps, thirsting for revenge would amount to abandoning their favourite weapon against India.As per the estimate of the security establishment here, the risk of terrorists trying to set off fresh attacks has risen also because of India’s success in neutralising the efforts to breach its air defence and target its military facilities over the past 48 hours. “They may fall back on the default option of using terror proxies to compensate for the failure of their forces,” a senior govt functionary involved in decision-making said. “Tragic aberrations like the Pahalgam massacre notwithstanding, India has been very successful in thwarting terror attacks over the past 10 years. But now we have to brace for a higher level of desperation,” he said.
