Claim

Every peace effort India has made toward Pakistan has been followed by a terror attack from Pakistan's side.

“भारत ने पाकिस्तान के साथ शांति के लिए जो भी प्रयास किए, उनके बाद पाकिस्तान की ओर से आतंकी हमला हुआ।”

Rationale

The claim generalizes a real, well-documented pattern into a false universal. Several prominent peace initiatives were indeed followed by attacks traced to Pakistan-based actors: the February 1999 Lahore Declaration was followed by the Kargil intrusion (May 1999) and the IC-814 hijack (December 1999); the July 2001 Agra summit period was followed by the December 2001 Parliament attack; Modi's December 2015 Lahore visit was followed by the Pathankot attack (January 2016). However, the word 'every' (जो भी प्रयास) makes the claim absolute, and clear counterexamples exist: the 2003 ceasefire agreement and Vajpayee's 2003 peace initiative were followed by a dramatic multi-year decline in violence (ceasefire violations fell from 2,841 in 2003 to 4 in 2004), and the 2004–2007 composite dialogue period saw sustained relative calm rather than an immediate terror response; the February 2021 ceasefire recommitment also largely held for years. No Indian fact-checker (AltNews, BOOM, Factly, Newschecker, PIB) has adjudicated this exact statement, but primary-source history shows the pattern is selective, not universal — hence misleading rather than outright inaccurate.

Evidence

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahore_Declaration Documents that Vajpayee's February 1999 Lahore bus diplomacy and Lahore Declaration were followed within months by Pakistan's Kargil infiltration and the May 1999 war — a genuine instance supporting the pattern the anchor describes. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pathankot_attack Documents that the January 2, 2016 Pathankot airbase attack, attributed to Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, came eight days after PM Modi's December 25, 2015 Lahore visit — another instance fitting the pattern. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/india-pakistan-two-decades-after-the-cease-fire-agreement Shows the counterexample: the November 2003 ceasefire agreement — itself a product of Vajpayee's 2003 peace initiative — led to a dramatic drop in violations (from 2,841 in 2003 to 4 in 2004) and peace largely held along the border until around 2008, i.e., a major peace effort NOT immediately followed by escalation. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.e-ir.info/2018/02/08/india-and-pakistan-formalizing-the-2003-ceasefire-agreement/ Corroborates that during the 2004–2007 composite dialogue and back-channel process, cross-border violence nearly halted for several years, contradicting the universal 'every peace effort was followed by a terror attack' framing. ✓ reachable · archived