The growing international pressure, it seems, has taken over Pakistan's ruling corridors and it utter frustration, they are now resorting even to using derogatory words for India and its ruling dispensation that has successfully worked to isolate Pakistan on its terror track record.
We just saw a frustrated Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif calling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi terrorist during a television interview.
We just saw a frustrated Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif calling Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi terrorist during a television interview.
While answering a question
about India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj calling Pakistan a terror
exporter nation at the United Nations General Assembly recently, Asif said it was in
fact India that was ruled by a terrorist prime minister and a terrorist party.
On Geo News' Capital Talk, Asif said the Indian prime minister had blood of Gujarati Muslims on his hands. He further went on to say that India was being ruled by a terrorist party, the RSS, and the BJP was its companion.
Sushma’s address to the UNGA
on September 23 in New York mentioned Pakistan multiple times linking it with terror
and said that “Pakistan seemed only engaged in fighting India.” Sushma speech
showed mirror to Pakistan for its double-dealings and treachery and held it responsible for the aborting the peace process between the two
countries.
Clearly making a distinction
between the two countries and showing Pakistan its real place, Sushma said
Pakistan had become a hopeless case and it had nothing to offer to the world
and indeed to its own people apart from terrorism.
The fact indeed is, Pakistan
is a safe haven for terrorists and uses terror as state policy tool. It exports terrorism not only to its neighbouring
countries like India and Afghanistan but is also increasingly becoming isolated
as a terror haven for groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban who perpetrate
terror globally.
US President Donald Trump has declared Pakistan a terror haven and has indicated that the US soon
could end Pakistan's US ally status. The BRICS that has China as a
founding member also talked tough on terror clearly warning terror havens like Pakistan to
crackdown on terrorists in its declaration issued last month.
It has created a sense of
panic in Pakistan’s ruling circles, be it its civilian government or its military. Though they deny it, their
contradicting responses confirm it.
A day after the BRICS Declaration, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir rejected it saying Pakistan had no terror safe havens, only to be contradicted by Khawaja Asif the next day who accepted presence of terror groups in Pakistan including India centric terror groups LeT and JeM and went on to say that his country must rein-in terror groups to avoid international embarrassment.
A day after the BRICS Declaration, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir rejected it saying Pakistan had no terror safe havens, only to be contradicted by Khawaja Asif the next day who accepted presence of terror groups in Pakistan including India centric terror groups LeT and JeM and went on to say that his country must rein-in terror groups to avoid international embarrassment.
While Asif was trying to be
straightforward, his country's army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa chose to warn the US,
“if Pakistan had not done enough in the war against terror, then no country in
the world had done anything.” Pakistan's parliament has also taken on its foreign minister and prime minister for
letting the country down after Asif repeated the same arguments on the sidelines
of the UNGA and the Pakistani PM endorsed it.
PS: We should also not forget that it was Khawaja Asif only who used to nuke India every other before surgical strikes inside Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in last September and its first anniversary just passed on September 29.
Before September 2016’s surgical strike, the favourite line of Khawaja Asif happened to be that Pakistan will eliminate India with its tactical nuclear weapons if it tried to impose war on Pakistan.
The same Khawaja Asif, after the surgical strike on the intervening night of September 28-29, was stuttering while accepting that there was an aggression by India and ‘if India tries it again, Pakistan will give befitting reply’ (and not that ‘Pakistan will nuke and eliminate India), before toeing the line of Pakistan’s army. He had gone on to say even this that ‘India and Pakistan cannot take risk of a nuclear holocaust’.
PS: We should also not forget that it was Khawaja Asif only who used to nuke India every other before surgical strikes inside Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir in last September and its first anniversary just passed on September 29.
Before September 2016’s surgical strike, the favourite line of Khawaja Asif happened to be that Pakistan will eliminate India with its tactical nuclear weapons if it tried to impose war on Pakistan.
The same Khawaja Asif, after the surgical strike on the intervening night of September 28-29, was stuttering while accepting that there was an aggression by India and ‘if India tries it again, Pakistan will give befitting reply’ (and not that ‘Pakistan will nuke and eliminate India), before toeing the line of Pakistan’s army. He had gone on to say even this that ‘India and Pakistan cannot take risk of a nuclear holocaust’.
©SantoshChaubey
