NEW DELHI: ARAB NEWS
Saturday 16 March 2013
.India’s hanging of a Kashmiri man convicted in a terror attack is threatening to damage further relations with Pakistan.
New Delhi reacted angrily to a resolution adopted by Pakistan’s National Assembly condemning the execution last month of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who was convicted in a deadly 2001 attack on India’s Parliament, accusing its neighbor of interfering in its internal affairs.
India’s Parliament passed a resolution of its own yesterday, insisting the Pakistani assembly “desist from acts of support for extremist and terrorist elements.”
A proposed home-and-away field hockey series between the nations’ teams also was called off yesterday on the advice of India’s Foreign Ministry.
“I hope they (Pakistan) will get the message,” said Salman Khurshid, India’s foreign minister.
Tensions also rose this week when India accused Pakistan of involvement in an attack on Wednesday in the Indian portion of Kashmir that killed five paramilitary soldiers.
Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the militants were carrying a diary with Pakistani phone numbers and a tube of skin ointment manufactured in Karachi.
Pakistan denied the attackers came from its territory.
Every time, I read statements of India’s foreign minister, Salman Khurshid about Pakistan, I break into laughter mixed with tears. The man is living in a cuckoo’s land.
He has no problem in condemning Pakistan ( by the way, not a province of India) National Assembly’s resolution for condemning the execution last month of Mohammed Afzal Guru and called it interfering in India’s internal affairs. But India has no shame in issuing statements, which constantly interfere in Pakistan’s internal affair. For example, when China and Pakistan signed under a contract of letting China develop Gawadar port. India called it “Threat to its maritime lanes.
Then it shows a child like behavior by cancelling sports tours, tourist visas and high level visits. This time, a proposed home-and-away field hockey series between the nations’ teams also was called off on the advice of India’s Foreign Ministry. The Minister came up with an arrogant yet silly remark: “I hope they (Pakistan) will get the message,”
The following is a gem, of idiocy from Indian officials.
Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the militants were carrying a diary with Pakistani phone numbers and a tube of skin ointment manufactured in Karachi.
First of all, the situation has become so absurd that Indians would even blame Pakistan for the death of a cow, which falls and dies on the road.
Secondly, if and it is a big if, why would terrorists have diaries in their pockets with Pakistani phone numbers and a tube made in Pakistan. Can India not find some intelligent and credible excuses to implicate Pakistan. Apparently, not!