haviZsultan
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As a person who has seen Indian RAW attrocities I can too very easily blame all Indians and call it a terrorist state. Pakistan may have some rogue elements but most of us would never do something as horrible as what RAW has done. We can say the same thing. India talks about peace and operates murderers in our country. it is easy to blame. The reality is very few people have seen and noticed the attrocities your country is responsible for and RAW is a very good agency.I'm not so sure sir, global events are moving faster than that and could signifanctly change the status quo.
1) US is drawing down in Afghanistan, their dependance of Pakistan for supporting their troops is waning
2) Iran is making baby steps to normalising its relations with the international community (long term there will be another land route into Afghanistan through Iran- Chabahar).
3)Saudi Arabia (a long standing ally of Pakistan) is engaged in its own "counter terrorist" operations in Yeman (not so sure how the UAE's apparent warming of ties with India factor in here)
4) Russia is getting more and more sucked into the ISIS fight (that a plane full of their citizens was downed by ISIS will rear its head at some time).
5) Audacious attacks in the West (Paris) have ignited anti Islamic extremism like I haven't seen since 9/11 and I will tell you it is not all directed at ISIS
6) As I have pointed out above- China is moving away from its tradtional non-commital/indifferent stance on such matters
India does not even have to do much itself, just present a compelling narrative that matches the feelings in many capitals (ie terrorism of every form is bad) which seems to be a relatively simply undertaking in these times. Once this narrative is established and some sort of firm foundation on an international setting is in place (UN most likely) what started out as an anti-ISIS sentiment can have some rather dramtic implications for all state sponserers of terror- Pakistan included.
There is a clear distinction to be made- the Indian public can have sympathy for the Pakistani people but not for the elements that have created such monsters. One can't expect a nuanced view of these things when it comes to public opnion- after 9/11 many Americans (and those in the West) saw Arabs/Muslims/even Sikhs as "terrorists" or "would-be terrorists".
When there is reason to blame you, why should you escape blame?
I don't have much time to think about those losers. The fact of the matter is they will fall in line, they aren't going to have any base if they publically side with a state that has been declared a state sponsorer of terror by the end of this strategy. Have the Congress not already started to distance themselves from the idiots that are Mani and Salman?
The Congress will fall in line, it makes no sense for them to play contrary in this instance.
Pakistan regardless of whether it is succeeding or not is taking the fight to right wing terrorists. Has India ever taken up an operation against Hindutva terrorists. That should prove how hard it is to hunt down terrorists of your own religion.