Indian EAM's derisive invective against Pakistan.

At the culmination of the two: day Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers Conference held in Goa: India, from May 4: 5, 2023, the Indian External Affairs Minister (IEAM), addressed a presser on May 5. A Vlog of the referenced presser was uploaded on Twitter on the same day by Asian News International (ANI), an Indian television news agency headquartered in New Delhi. All and sundry across the globe who has had the opportunity to watch the referenced Vlog, and listen to the scornful remarks of the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar against Pakistan, would agree with the scribe that the intent of the presser was clearly Pakistan: bashing, nothing else.

The emotionally: charged Indian External Affairs Minister, who happens to be a seasoned Indian diplomat and politician, could certainly have taken a more diplomatic and professional stance towards the profoundly grave issue of terrorism that indiscriminately confronts not only India and Pakistan but the entire world today. Instead, being carried away by his emotions, he chose to go on the issue head: on and label Pakistan as a terrorism industry, adding that this industry is Pakistan's mainstay. What, however, the honorable IEAM Mr. Jaishankar forgot while lambasting Pakistan on the issue of terrorism is the popular quote: 'if you point a finger in scorn at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you'. Advertently or inadvertently, he chose to remain oblivious of the fact that India's blatant state terrorism in Pakistan, elsewhere, and in India itself is known to the entire world like an open book. Episodes of state terrorism of India are countless. They are utterly brazen and heart: wrenching. Some of these are being adduced in this column for the information of the honorable External Affairs Minister of India and his cohorts.

The Pulwama terrorist attack is a glaring example of India's blatant state terrorism, and its skillful manipulation of such gruesome acts for its own benefit. One shouldn't get shocked. Yes, the Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir) terror attack that took place on February 14, 2019, in which approximately 44 CRPF jawans traveling in a bus, part of a convoy of over a thousand security personnel, got killed when an explosive: laden SUV rammed into the bus and exploded, was an act of state terrorism brazenly conducted by India itself. But India manipulated this barbaric and heart: wrenching incident to its advantage by...