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Editorial: Pakistan’s Growing Anti-India Rhetoric

It’s different thing how he would be interpreted internationally, but the way Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has taken forward the battle of first terming all Indian evidence on 9/11 as ‘No-evidence’ and, recently, calling Indian minister or any other representative for sharing the ‘strong evidence’ he has of New Delhi’s involvement in funding Taliban and fomenting unrest in Pakistan would have surely won him many friends in anti-India lobby and heightened his stature to unthinkable heights within Pakistani politics for standing strong and responding robustly to a traditional enemy. For responses such as treating Interpol’s Red Corner notice against JuD chief Hafiz Saeed second fiddle to Pakistan’s investigative and legal procedures and linking a spate of terror strikes to India can be expected to achieve nothing beyond things political.

New Delhi can no longer play down the irresponsible statements of Pakistani minister merely considering that they are taking the position to appease people and army It’s time for India to think seriously, in particular after Sharm-el-Sheikh, which have further strengthened Islamabad’s counter-terror blame against India.

One, pleasing Pakistani people. Two, strengthening oneself politically. Three, pleasing Almighty military. Four, preparing counter terror logic against India. Five, delinking current terror incidences with its own wrong policies. Six, attempting to convince the US, which has now put a rider on military aid to Islamabad so that they can not be used against India, that it’s actually New Delhi which is investing money in promoting terror and that too in Pakistan, that too in a region near Afghan border which is crucially important for both Pakistan and the US. Seven, putting a strong case against India’s efforts of infrastructure development in Afghanistan which have been appreciated both by Afghani people and the Washington. Eight, giving push to argument that New Delhi doesn’t want a ‘stabilised’ Pakistan makes a ground for building a lobby for India’s withdrawal from Afghanistan so that Afghan Taliban could be easily aided to make Afghanistan again ‘destabilized’, a safe haven for all kind of terrorists, especially jihadis fighting against India.

Nonetheless, it’s time for India to think, think seriously, in particular after Sharm-el-Sheikh, which have further strengthened Islamabad’s counter-terror blame against India and following which India has been Malik’s favourite territory of diplomatic attack. He has invited Indians for talks on New Delhi’s involvement in unrest in Balochistan province. Is Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who, just after Sharm-el-Sheikh, reasoned his bringing in discussion on Balochistan in Joint Declaration with Pakistan with a statement that India has nothing to hide, listening to Malik? He claims to be out to prove alleged Indian hand in unrest in Balochistan, funding of Taliban and terror strikes in Pakistan if his remarks are anything to go by.

New Delhi can no longer play down the irresponsible statements of Pakistani minister merely considering that they are taking the position to appease people and army. Indian and Afghanistan both blamed Pakistan’s ISI for bomb explosion in Indian embassy in Kabul, which Pakistan outrightly rejected. We’ve clear line of Islambad’s policy on terror. It sponsors terror in India, it’s unable to deal with internal terror which started for it first sheltered terrorists and then started killing them under US pressure, it wants to take as many dollars from US as it can on terrorism etc. It’s time India carefully, deliberately formulate a Pakistan specific policy on terror to expose it to the world.

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