REFERENCE your editorial ‘Regional isolation?’
(Oct 2).
I’m afraid Pakistan is already isolated to a
large extent. There was a time when the entire Muslim world supported our
stance on the Kashmir dispute. Now no Muslim country speaks out in favour of
implementing UN resolutions on resolving the issue. Even though there is no
proof of our involvement, and it is obvious that India was the only beneficiary
of the Uri base attack and, therefore, may have itself engineered the incident
to malign us, we are being held responsible for it.
Instead of condemning India for its so-called
‘surgical strike across the LoC’ — which, if it had really happened, could have
resulted in war — the entire world is silent. You can be sure if Pakistan had
claimed to have crossed the LoC (without actually doing so), there would have been
an uproar.
Surely there is something wrong that we are
doing. Perhaps if we stopped extremist organisations from openly propagating
their poisonous beliefs and brainwashing our youths to turn them into suicide
bombers, we may change the perception others have of our country being a
supporter of terrorism.
It would also help if we had an able foreign
minister in charge instead of our bumbling prime minister who is also the
foreign minister and who thinks he is very good at presenting our case before
international forums.
Shakir
Karachi
Karachi
Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2016
http://www.dawn.com/news/1288103/regional-isolation
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