Stung by the International Court of Justice’s stay on the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who is languishing in a Pakistani jail, Islamabad may now try to leverage the arrest of a suspected SIMI member Sheikh Nabi Ahmed to score brownie points. Once India is able to establish the criminal antecedents of this man, it can effortlessly call off Islamabad’s bluff. The US, which had once called Islamabad its ally in the war against terror, is showing impatience with Pak-sponsored terror attacks in India. The Pakistani army, which sponsors and nurtures terror outfits, is a law unto itself and the civilian government is reduced to a puppet. Its ally China is merely a fair-weather friend, which means the Islamic country will have to face the consequences of warming up to Beijing.

Source: dna May 24, 2017 02:48 UTC