New Delhi:
As India marks the 17th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, one of the bloodiest assaults ever carried out on Indian soil – NatStrat, an independent centre for strategic and security research, has released a sweeping historical record of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism against India since 1947. The report, Chronology of Pakistani Terror Attacks on India (1947-2025), spans eight decades of cross-border terror, proxy warfare, and covert aggression – an unbroken chain of violence that, as the report notes, remains rooted in Pakistan’s “consistent strategic behaviour” towards India.
Speaking to NDTV on the eve of the anniversary, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, former Deputy National Security Advisor of India and Convenor of NatStrat, said the project was driven by an urgent national need to document this history:
“When we in NatStrat started work on analysing the sources of terrorism in India, we realised we were looking at a pattern of Pakistani behaviour that has been consistent since 1947 – one designed to hurt and harm India through non-military means based on deniability and subterfuge.”
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