Key Points
Hence, Indias External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar is justified in referring to his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as a promoter, justifier and spokesperson of a terrorism industry in his media interaction during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers summit in Goa...
However, when Bilawal brazenly broke this diplomatic convention by raising the Kashmir issue on the side-lines of SCO, the Indian Foreign Minister rightly gave him a curt reply and exposed Bilawals pathetic attempt to play the terror victim card...
An exuberant Bhutto-Zardari indirectly suggested that India is possibly emerging as leader of a group of nations that is weaponising terrorism for diplomatic point scoring rather than allowing Pakistan room to join in a global effort to eradicate this menace.This absurd allegation was summarily dismissed by Jaishankar, who pointed out that Islamabad needs to wake up and smell the coffee...
On being accused of being too harsh, Jaishankar made it clear that while Zardari-Bhutto was treated as a foreign minister of an SCO member state as a promoter, justifier and a spokesperson of a terrorism industry, which is the mainstay of Pakistan, his positions were called out and they were countered including at the SCO meeting itself...
So, while an Indian television channel rightly commented that Bhutto-Zardaris rhetoric and polemics show a continued regression in attitudes towards India rather than an effort to keep doors open, Dr Jaishankars remark that If I have a guest who is a good guest, I am a good host, aptly sums up the Pakistani foreign ministers lack of diplomatic finesse!..
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