The renewed strength of Modi’s second coming makes it especially necessary to lay the ghost of regional fears. Even Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) hasn’t been outstandingly receptive to pleas by Modi and Sushma Swaraj. Modi’s declaration in Malé that “state sponsorship of terrorism is the biggest threat” unmistakably referred to Pakistan. Buddhist Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya minority is probably the contemporary world’s most outrageous instance of State terrorism. To many of these outfits can be applied the old adage that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

Source: The Telegraph June 15, 2019 02:15 UTC