The manicured streets of uptown Mumbai’s Bandra and Khar areas have long fostered a peculiar breed of celebrity activism that routinely mistakes the shield of an elite lineage for immunity from national law. Imran Khan, the nephew of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, has enjoyed the multi-layered privileges of India’s entertainment aristocracy. Despite a career defined far more by inherited access than by cinematic triumph, Khan was handed high-profile launches on a silver platter.

The recent claims made by Noreen Niazi, sister of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, completely expose Pakistan’s military myth-making and underline the widening gap between India’s capabilities and Islamabad’s illusions. In a widely circulated interview, Niazi challenged the official Pakistani account of the confrontation that followed the Pahalgam terror attack, claiming that the country’s military leadership concealed the true extent of India’s military advantage during Ope