Narendra Modi offers vaccine to polio-hit Saarc nations, puts Pakistan in a bind

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

NEW DELHI: India has offered vaccine to polio-hit countries in South Asia, which would mean Pakistan and Afghanistan. The offer was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Saarc summit. It may find many takers in Afghanistan but would place Pakistan in a bind.

"We will support monitoring and surveillance ... and provide vaccines where it might reappear," Modi said. Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are the only three countries where polio still has a significant presence.

For three days, everybody waited in breathless anticipation for Indian and Pakistani PMs to smile, shake hands, exchange words, or break the ice with a substantive discussion. For those watching yet another display of a South Asian disunion, it was almost par for the course when Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif blocked a regional connectivity pact through electricity and railways and tried to bring China into the grouping.

However, in a rare move, India put both Saarc and Pakistan on notice. Addressing Saarc leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the region would get together "either all of us or some of us". It was the clearest sign from India that obstructionists could lose currency.

The PM has committed a large number of deliverables from India for the Saarc region.

India, he announced would set up a Special Purpose Facility "to finance infrastructure projects in our region that enhance our connectivity and trade". India will upgrade border facilities and push for common standards between Saarc countries. Modi announced, "India will now give business visa for 3-5 years for Saarc. Let's make it even easier for our businesses through a Saarc Business Traveller Card." Modi said he plans to set up a power trading facility in the region through which electricity can be traded as a commodity.

India, he said, would put in extra funds to establish the Saarc Regional Supra Reference Laboratory for TB and HIV. India will also sell the pentavalent vaccine to other South Asian countries and has promised quick delivery medical visas.

Narendra Modi offers vaccine to polio-hit Saarc nations, puts Pakistan in a bind - The Economic Times

 

[Winchester]

How has this placed Pakistan in a bind???

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Good move. All countries will accept to greater cooperation. Pakistan will not. In future India can claim the higher moral ground in International forums.

 

[nair]

For Pakistan the issue is not availability of medicines, the issue is stupid mulla's minds, and their resistance to this drive....... Hope Pakistan find a way to restrict the resistance and really come up with something...........

 

[Nova2]

They definitely would reject it, let's give to Afghanistan and work on HIV an TB medicines as well to improve sitiuation across southAsia.

 

[root]

Pakistan dont need vaccine from enemy instead of vaccine you should first stop sending your terrorists inside Pakistan.

 

[jaunty]

Pakistan's ego won't allow it.

 

[Tshering22]

Good move, but will pakistan accept this offer?
I think their ego problem will be there to reject it, they will say we are capable to fight against polio, and we know how much capable they are.

It is not 'their' ego problem.

It is Pakistani Army's ego problem.

Sharif if left on his own would welcome this and there would have been no cross-border firing instances which caused a lot of tensions on both sides sometime ago.

The Army calls the shots there so it should be Gen. Raheel who should see the negative consequences of creating such a deficit.

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

Now the ball is in Nawaz's court ...Clearly National Interest is below ego for the Pakistani PM.

 

[halupridol]

already polio workers being murdered for no apparent reason in Pakistan,,,,,,well carrying hindooo vaccines in those areas might earn them additional torture

 

[Sam Manekshaw]

It is not 'their' ego problem.

It is Pakistani Army's ego problem.

Sharif if left on his own would welcome this and there would have been no cross-border firing instances which caused a lot of tensions on both sides sometime ago.

The Army calls the shots there so it should be Gen. Raheel who should see the negative consequences of creating such a deficit.

Not our/anyone's concerns....What the military and civilian body do inside their decision making process is their matter but whatever comes out as a result of that procedure is the Decision of Pakistan not Civil body's or Military body's.

 

[SQ8]

What a pointless claim on something that is not even there. @nair is actually right on the spot regarding the polio issue. You can dump an entire shipload of Israeli polio vaccines here and it will be accepted. What cant be done is to try and convince the ignoramus Bufoon that is the common Pakistani Mullah that the vaccine is there to end disease and not render the "Islamic" population impotent so that they cannot have more children.

 

[ni8mare]

already polio workers being murdered for no apparent reason in Pakistan,,,,,,well carrying hindooo vaccines in those areas might earn them additional torture

its yinduoo...........

 

[Capt.Popeye]

What a pointless claim on something that is not even there. @nair is actually right on the spot regarding the polio issue. You can dump an entire shipload of Israeli polio vaccines here and it will be accepted. What cant be done is to try and convince the ignoramus Bufoon that is the common Pakistani Mullah that the vaccine is there to end disease and not render the "Islamic" population impotent so that they cannot have more children.

@Oscar; that is the price that one has to pay for creating and tolerating a "Mullah-cracy" !

 

[Judge]

Now the ball is in Nawaz's court ...Clearly National Interest is below ego for the Pakistani PM.

The ball is never in Nawaz's court. Its always in Pakistan Army's court.
They handle any and all decisions related to India.