The Russian interference might be partly true or a figment of the lately fevered American imagination, but it can safely be said that the absurd notion of Pakistan swaying an Indian state election is an utter distortion of the truth, simply a ‘below the belt’ dig. Gujarat was not even mentioned, and poor Manmohan Singh hardly uttered a word. It was also preposterously claimed that a former Pakistan army chief ‘Arshad Rafiq (sic) had favoured Congress candidate, Ahmed Patel, as chief minister of Gujarat! Actually, PM Modi faces the possibility of an embarrassing defeat in his home state, which the BJP has ruled for the last 22 years with little to show for it in development, and this explains his ‘fabricated conspiracies’, which the Pakistan foreign office rejected with the disdain they deserved. Slandering and isolating Pakistan at every turn is a no-win policy, and India should seek peace in the region, avoiding US sponsored security ‘closed blocs arrangements’, as was wisely suggested by the Russian foreign minister at the recent RIC (Russia, India, China) foreign ministers moot in Delhi.

Source: Pakistan Today December 13, 2017 03:00 UTC