Dear Editor,
As much as India should not make Pakistan the core of India’s foreign policy, Pakistan manages every time to ensure that it is. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Lahore last December, taking many people by surprise. Pakistan responded with the Pathankot attack. Prime Minister Modi decided to cooperate with Islamabad on the Pathankot investigation. Pakistan decided to refuse to continue with that cooperation by denying
reciprocity.
As long as Pakistan continues to believe that it has a god-given right on Kashmir and that India’s sizeable Muslim population needs Pakistan’s help against imagined Indian oppression, India will have no choice but to continue to treat Pakistan as the core of India’s foreign policy. New Delhi cannot run away from its terrorist-breeding neighbour, no matter how much it tries to do so.
Marty Martel
Via email