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Pakistan’s shameful act as a host

By Farooq Ganderbali


Pakistanis, among other myths, claim themselves to be great hosts and entertainers but the way they acted, collectively, during the recent SAARC Summit, targeting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh, laid bare their pretences and was utterly shameful.


Pakistan was the host country and the event was an important event in the sub-continent’s calendar. The least the guest countries expected from their host was basic courtesies you extend to leaders of other countries, this time from the neighbourhood. Pakistan, instead of being a gracious host, turned the event into a mud-slinging exercise, targeting the Indian team, including the honourable Home Minister, which was both uncalled for and disgraceful.


First they let out their favourite bogeyman, Hafiz Saeed of the terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), to openly threaten the top leadership of India. He not only repeated the threats several times but called for a country-wide protest if the Indian Home Minister were to step on the soil of Pakistan. The Home Minister did despite neither Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shutting up the terrorist motor-mouth nor stopping them from taking out protest rallies against the Indian Home Minister and his official delegation. The way in which Saeed talked, and that too freely, it showed a complicity on the part of the Nawaz Sharif government to allow such open hostility to its neighbouring country. Saeed, who should have been locked up in some dark dungeon years back, deserved to be banished into some backwaters.


The only conclusion which could be drawn from the disgraceful welcome note struck by the Pakistani leadership before the SAARC meeting was that they wanted the Home Minister to back out of the meeting and refuse to visit their country which left no stone unturned to make it even more hostile than it is towards India. But the Indian leadership acted as they should, with grace and responsibility, and decided to attend the SAARC meeting and participate in the deliberations as a responsible nation and member of the South Asian fraternity of nations.


With the first move having been backfired, Pakistani leadership decided to make it difficult for the Indian leadership by whipping up a Kashmir hysteria and creating a malevolent environment. Gone were the falsejhuppies and boisterous hailing, which was the hallmark of Pakistani leaders when they met the Indian counterparts. This time they dropped even the pretences and were openly sabre rattling, with long drawn out knives in public view. Photographs of the event showed how uncomfortable they had made for the Indian delegation to interact with their Pakistani counterparts.


On top of it, the host country’s Interior Minister, a strange character who once lambasted the army but soon transformed into a Rawalpindi poodle, gave the official lunch a miss, clearly a diplomatic faux pas. His excuse that he had to attend a meeting with the Prime Minister, was lame and unbelievable. The meeting could have been shifted an hour here or there.


Unruffled by these obvious stumbling blocks spread by the host country, the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh minced no words to speak his mind. He said there cannot be any difference opinion on defining a terrorist and one country’s terrorist cannot be a friend of another country, and that too a close neighbour. This must have hit home hard for the Pakistani leadership. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif downwards have been hailing the terrorist, Burhan Wani, as a martyr and calling up on the international community to intervene, while they, themselves, merrily hanged, in the dead of the night, any one who had dared to raise a banner of revolt against them, more specifically against Pakistan Army.


Prime Minister Sharif and his colleagues should have spent their energy and time in counting the number of their own citizens their police, para-military and army have killed in the last two years. They were all citizens of Pakistan and their fault was that they were not willing to take the diktats of Islamabad and Rawalpindi lying down. It would be useful for Prime Minister Sharif and his colleagues in the government to clarify whether TTP leaders were martyrs, freedom fighters or terrorists? It would be useful to remember his own words, soon after terrorists massacred 170-odd innocent school children in Peshawar a little less than a year back, when he said there would be no distinction between terrorists. A terrorist was a terrorist, and not a good or a bad terrorist. So was Burhan Wani, by the way, a terrorist and nothing else.


But then Pakistani leadership has rarely been known to be loyal to truth. They have for decades perfected the art of manufacturing facts in a perverse universe of self-glorification and megalomania.

Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s clear but refined rebuke of the Pakistani doublespeak on terrorism, on their soil, should be sufficient a lesson.




(The writer is a Freelance Journalist,Writer, Columnist based in Kashmir)


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