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India’s strategic employment of 'terrorism' as a single-issue FP comms item makes for an interesting study of how states highlight and market themselves in pursuit of regional objectives...1/n https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1349019408996425729
n.b. India, like other states in the region, has a slew of legitimate terror grievances: the Mumbai attacks, claimed by India to be its 9/11, lasted for more than 66 hrs and on TV. Tariq Khosa has honestly/without embellishment, reviewed the trials here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1198061
But the deeper issue here (and few seem to be calling this out) is India’s selective appropriation of terrorism at choice multilateral forums - first FATF, now the UNSC...
India has not admitted to its botched investigation into the Samjhauta Express bombing in which 66 Pakistanis were killed, masterfully contextualised in The Caravan here: https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/pragya-singh-thakur-joins-bjp-samjhauta-express
Or accepted that the acquittals in the Samjhauta Express case dovetailed with the domestic feting of others facing trial in India; with one even elevated as MPs in India’s Lok Sabha... https://thewire.in/politics/elections-2019-bjp-pragya-thakur.
Equally missing from Dr. Jaishankar’s global “no-ifs-no-buts” disavowal of terror is an increasingly well-documented admission of India’s covert support for instability in Balochistan, heard before the ICJ in the case of Kulbhusahan Jadhav: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/7/9/pakistan-invites-india-to-file-review-against-spys-conviction
Back in '09 India’s Opposition had a field day following Manmohan Singh’s joint statement with YRG in Sharm el-Sheikh politically affirming Pakistan allegations re Indian involvement in Balochistan. 10 yrs on, those same voices have dropped the subterfuge. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pm-narendra-modi-balochistan-independence-day-bjp-manmohan-singh-2977533/
The point here is that Dr. Jaishankar’s eight-point plan to combat terrorism at the UNSC, understandably high on rhetoric, is singularly a-historic; its partisan undertones betray a fundamental lack of honesty and objectivity. 8/8 https://twitter.com/Geeta_Mohan/status/1349012369381486599?s=20
