Islamabad:
More than 130 countries have condemned the Pahalgams attack in Jammu-et-Cachemire of Indian origin and have expressed their solidarity with New Delhi. However, India is upset.
Despite the world leaders, including the allies closest to India in the United States, denouncing Pahalgam’s attack, they stopped blaming Pakistan – the last thing the Modi government wanted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to many world leaders and tried to convince them that the attack on tourists had a Pakistani footprint. Diplomats published in New Delhi were informed by the Ministry of External Affairs, building a case against Pakistan.
However, none of the countries was convinced and refrained from approaching the Indian position. So much so that the Trump administration, which includes those responsible for India, wanted to see convincing evidence before blaming Pakistan.
President Donald Trump’s statement was a shock for India, which expected explicit support from the United States. Instead, Trump was of the opinion that he was close to India and Pakistan and that he knew that cashmere was a long -standing question.
A member of the American reflection group told L’Express PK Press Club that Trump’s position was contrary to an otherwise close strategic partnership with India. The broader interpretation of President Trump’s statement is that he considers Pahalgam’s attack not as a simple terrorist incident but in the context of the cashmere dispute. “It is a deadly blow for the Indian story,” said the American expert, who was of the opinion that New Delhi wanted an explicit support from Washington, Branding Pakistan as a sponsor of this attack.
The diplomats, who were informed by the Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs on the attack on Pahalgam, reported to their respective governments that New Delhi had not yet provided clear evidence of the involvement of Pakistan. Some of them told the New York Times that India built its case according to the past support of Pakistan to the active groups in the disputed cashmere region.
Part of the reason why the outside world, especially Western countries, did not jump for the weapon or was not ready to support India as regards its allegations against Pakistan was the results of the Modi government.
Under the supervision of Modi, the Indian secret services led extrajudicial murders in Canada and had a failed attempt in the United States. These episodes have created a distrust between India and the West. The second factor was the haste with which India began to blame Pakistan in the hours after the attack.
International media and diplomatic missions followed closely the developments that took place after the attack. Many come to the conclusion that the Modi government seems to have developed a model to use such attacks to take political mileage by blaming Pakistan even without proof.
Pakistan, on the other hand, has not only condemned the attack, but proposed to participate in any neutral, transparent and credible “investigation.
China was the first country to approve the position of Pakistan while Russia also supported the idea of a impartial investigation.
The lack of evidence also helped Pakistan to win a major diplomatic victory at the CSNU when it published a declaration condemning the pahalgam incident. When the first project was disseminated among the 15 members, some references involved Pakistan. However, Pakistan has managed to convince other members to make the necessary changes that omitted controversial parties.
An official said that Pakistan was able to convince other members, including powerful players because they also knew that India had no clear evidence of Islamabad’s involvement.
