The Indian envoy said even when there was palpable tension between the two countries, there had been contacts at the operational level. While Modi can visit Lahore on the birthday of Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Mohamed Nawaz Sharif, but when things become hard in India all of this friendly posture is immediately forsaken in place of pinning blame on Pakistan and refusing to accept responsibility.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup, briefing reporters on the prime minister’s meeting with the leaders of other BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations on Sunday, said Modi urged BRICS members “to coordinate actions to isolate those who are supporters and sponsors of terror”.
Describing the Narendra Modi government’s policy towards Pakistan as being “schizophrenic” and marked by “flip flops”, the Congress today said it was a government of “self, selfie and self interest” that works in their own interest.
On September 1, army chief General Raheel Sharif told Indian prime minister and its top spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) that Pakistan’s borders were completely secure and that the country understood the conspiracies being hatched against it well. Several meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) had also been held. To be fair, the occasion of a Saarc summit has in the past been used to break a bilateral India-Pakistan logjam.
“There is no option but to do it step by step”, he said.
He said India had taken a stand in the 1960s and 70s that New Delhi and Beijing must talk on the boundary problem before moving on to other issues.
“We should start by grabbing the low hanging fruit”.
He also mentioned how Pakistan had refused consular access to alleged RAW agent Kulbhushan Jadhav, arrested in Pakistan, while India gave consular access to a Pakistani terrorist, Bahadur Ali. “This is very disrespectful on the part of the organisers”, officials asserted.
Talking to reporters here, AICC spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said, “In the past two years, we have seen a lot of flip flops by this government on the Pakistan policy”.
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On the question that India was trying to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), he said India will not derail any process that is for the betterment of Pakistan.
