Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh using SAARC platform spoke about terror perpetuated by Pakistan, support to militant organisations against India and sought justice for 26/11 victims and Pathankot. When has Pakistan conceded to India’s requests on the subjects? Despite giving all the evidences the rogue neighbour has not till date accepted its hand in terror export and blamed it on non-state players. India has been levelling charges and Pakistan has been denying it all through and the game continues. From Simla Agreement of 1974, to Vajpayee’s Lahore Bus Yatra to Agra Summit where Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf snubbed Indian request not to meet the media and Hurriyat leaders as part of its defiance to Kargil in 1999 to SAARC meet in Nepal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting Nawaz at Ufa in Russia to Modi going uninvited for tea the situation has not changed throughout all these years. The current SAARC meet in Islamabad crossed all the limits of bilateral understanding with militants who have been designated by world body United Nations and taken refuge in Pakistan issuing threat to disrupt the meeting and address of Indian Union Minister Rajnath Singh and they did disrupt the event howsoever the Indian Government denied about any such mischief. BJP’s Pakistan appeasing policy looks to have faltered all the way. All that bonhomie after the tea party did not last much before the flavour vanished when Pathankot took place where four Pakistani militants attacked air force station claiming eight lives and the security apparatus engaged for more than three days after the militants were eliminated. BJP riding on Chamel Singh-torture in Pakistan jail was able to garner maximum political mileage in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2014 Parliamentary and Assembly elections and formed the government in coalition with PDP which till date has not been able to stabilise it self. It looks BJP leaders have adopted ‘Gandhigiri’ that could be one explanation one can believe that even after getting humiliated so many times they still believe in keeping the peace process going forward.
