As an investigative journalist who has spent years sifting through the noise of geopolitical blame games, I have learned to spot a cover-up in real time. It always begins the same way: an incident occurs, a panic sets in, and a familiar, coordinated chorus arises to scream “Pakistan!” It is a convenient deflection, a smokescreen designed to hide a much darker, uncomfortable reality.

But this week, the smokescreen dissipated. The arrests of Luqman Khan and Jaan Shah Safi on American soil have not only debunked the frantic anti-Pakistan propaganda coming from New Delhi and Kabul’s old guard; they have exposed a terrifying truth that the world-and Washington-can no longer ignore. Terrorism has a mailing address, and despite the frantic efforts of social media trolls to forge the return label, it isn’t Pakistan. It is Afghanistan.

Let’s dissect the case of Luqman Khan. When news broke that Khan was allegedly plotting a massacre at the University of Delaware, armed with a machine gun and a manifesto of hate, the digital ecosystem exploded. Social media accounts, largely identifiable as Indian nationalists and former Afghan regime........

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