Source. Asia Times.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently sent Home Minister Rajnath Singh to a South Asian regional meeting in Pakistan to show that India is willing to engage a difficult neighbor and, in doing so, to bring about a calming effect on the acute ground situation in the Kashmir Valley still seething over the killing of a charismatic young militant leader by security forces. But Pakistan made a shrewd assessment of what India was up to and did not want to lose ground by engaging with New Delhi at this point. Rajnath’s Islamabad trip thus became a futile exercise which may fuel the mass upheaval and even bring down the Jammu and Kashmir government of which Modi’s party is a coalition partner.
The standoff in Islamabad Thursday between the visiting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Nisar Ali Khan hosting the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meeting of interior ministers has no parallel.
Time will tell who is harvesting the wrath.