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Petrified Pakistan: Our shivering neighbour accuses India of plotting fresh attack. Why so scared, Pak?

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Poulomi Ghosh
Poulomi GhoshApr 08, 2019 | 17:20

Petrified Pakistan: Our shivering neighbour accuses India of plotting fresh attack. Why so scared, Pak?

The 'guftgu' of the Pak finance minister sounds more like astrological predictions than hard facts based on intel inputs. But what's truly clear is their fear!

Our beloved neighbour Pakistan seems scared.

The same foreign minister of Pakistan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who recently admitted to having in-depth knowledge about Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar’s health, has once again shocked the world by saying that India had ‘new aggression’ plans up its sleeve, which will be unfurled somewhere between April 16 to April 20.

Why is this shocking? For two reasons, to be specific.

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1.). The revered minister based these allegations on strong intel inputs. We wonder how Pakistan has been suffering at the hands of terrorism if they have this strong an intel, or whatever they call it to camouflage their everyday cock-and-bull stories;

2.). Doesn’t it sound more like an astrological prediction? Like a Shubh Mahurat? Did they just control+F ‘J&K’ on our seven-phase election chart and thus reach this ‘preposterous’ conclusion? (Anantnag: April 23, 29, May 6; Baramulla: April 11; Jammu: April 11; Srinagar, Udhampur: April 18). Ladakh will go to the polls on May 6. Hence, the story has not stretched that far.

In quite a dramatic press conference (with enough of voice modulation), the Pakistani foreign minister did exactly what a minister of the cabinet of ‘peacenik’ Imran Khan (who almost won the Nobel Peace Prize) should not have done — fear-mongering.

He also took the entire responsibility of what he was saying.

“I am speaking responsibly. I hold a position of responsibility, and I know the words I utter will be picked up by the international media,” he said.

But so much for that. The Pakistani minister also comes across as quite a good story-teller.

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In his press conference, he enacts the imagined conversation between our PM Narendra Modi and the heads of India's armed forces.

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According to Pakistan, the mahurat starts on April 16 and ends on April 20. (Photo: Reuters)

“He (Modi) says that you have permission to carry out action. They (heads of armed forces) say, 'We have selected targets which are of a military nature. And it is not essential that those targets would be limited to Kashmir ... So, a new talk of military action is going on there and a new message about a military action is being given out," he concluded.

Apart from scaring his country — and daring India — the Pakistani minister also slammed the international community for their silence.

But we know the reason for this sudden trepidation.

It is quite unfortunate that poor Pakistan has never seen 'free and fair' elections without bloodshed. 

According to reports, over 200 people died in the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, which finally gave its verdict in favour of a 'Naya Pakistan' under the leadership of wohi purana Imran Khan. On election day, at least 31 people were killed in a bomb blast in Quetta — an attack later claimed by ISIS.

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So, the Pakistanis are scared thinking that the situation may be the same in its 'separated at birth' twin India as well. Only, they fear, the bloodshed could be on their side of the border.

Oh well. Let the Pakistanis live as they do — where the mind is with fear. And, quite likely, little else.

 

Last updated: April 08, 2019 | 23:26
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