Dear Sir,
I would not like to rile up my friends from Pakistan at this hour as this is a highly volatile & emotional time, specially in view of IK's arrest today, which is highly condemnable. Specially the way the way it was done. Also, I would like to take this opportunity to remind the general populace of Pakistan to remain optimistic and to keep pushing towards the pursuit of much needed political change and stability. I have nothing against the general populace of Pakistan. As a matter of fact, I have many Pakistani friends here, with whom I have more than cordial & brotherly relationship. I have hosted many of them to break their Ramadan fast & for Iftari and have attended their home for similar reciprocal gestures.
As for the bolded part, all I'll say is that, had BBZ also behaved like the CT delegations from India and Pakistan, which was also a part of SCO activities, (i.e. just do the job he came to do aka SCO and not preach peace and international law), I infer that even Jayshankar would have pretended to not understand the journalist's questions.
That being said, I, by no means, am saying that GoI is doodh ka dhula huwa (sparkly clean). By not playing cricket, they are obviously trying reduce revenue generated by PCB/ GoP. However, even after all the chest thumping by earlier IK, now BBZ and from India too, I am pretty sure that a lot of small scale (visible) & large scale (back channel) engagements are still happening over the years.
