Before American Congress
Now, as prime minister of India the double faced Narendra Modi condemned global terrorism and said during a lengthy address to Congress on 8 June that growing terrorism is a threat to the economic ties of both countries
Modi was the fifth Indian prime minister to address the US Congress, and the appearance represents a turnaround in his acceptance within the United States. For years Modi was barred from getting a visa to visit America because of his role in 2002 riots in the Indian state of Gujarat that cost the lives of more than 2,000 innocent people. The West had called him the “Butcher Chief Minister”. But as he rose as a national political figure in India, United States’s diplomats sought to put that difficult history to rest. Some members of Congress have criticised Modi’s human rights record, but the politics of a visit by an Indian leader have also changed.
Now, as prime minister of India the double faced Narendra Modi condemned global terrorism and said during a lengthy address to Congress on 8 June that growing terrorism is a threat to the economic ties of both countries.
It’s another thing that both India and USA are the biggest terrorists who have spoiled international peace. India is involved in disturbing the peace of the sub-continent and America has already destroyed the peace in the Middle East and is now trying to create trouble in the Far East.
Modi made clear that he intended the speech to hail a new moment in relations between the United States and India when he told Congress at the outset that he had started his visit to Washington with a trip to Arlington National Cemetery. He called it “the final resting place of many brave soldiers of this great land.”
Indian leaders have long been skeptical of American military power and have often been deeply critical of the Vietnam War and other military interventions by the United States.
In disparity to that, Modi encouraged a continued American military presence in Afghanistan because he is worried that Pakistan will have unchallenged influence there once the Americans leave.
Almost exactly 31 years ago, Rajiv Gandhi, then India’s prime minister, also spoke of Afghanistan in an address to Congress. But he did it in the context of justifying the Soviet military presence there because, he said, Soviet troops were “invited by the Karmal regime,” a reference to the Soviet-installed government of President Babrak Karmal.
The different references to Afghanistan are a measure of just how much relations between the world’s so called largest democracies have changed in three decades.
Then Modi made an explicit reference to China by endorsing the “freedom of navigation on seas,” referring to disputes involving the South China Sea and China’s efforts to carve out a part of those waters as its own.
On Tuesday 7 June, he held meetings at the White House with President Obama, where the two leaders formalised a wide range of agreements covering climate change, renewable energy, security and economic issues. Before Congress, Modi also repeated that India was open for business.
Modi is eager for greater foreign investment, although he has failed to deliver many fundamental reforms that would make business easier to conduct there, the smaller steps he has taken and his obvious enthusiasm have persuaded some major investors to give India a try.
Modi claimed that India’s economy is now the fastest-growing large economy in the world, but jobs are not being created at anywhere close to the pace needed to employ the roughly one million Indians who come of age each month.
Modi was forceful in his condemnation of global terrorism, a subject he dwelt on at length. “Not just in Afghanistan but elsewhere in South Asia and globally, terrorism remains the biggest threat,” he said, adding in a clear reference to Pakistan: “Although its shadow is spreading across the world, it is incubated in India’s neighbourhood.”
Comments
India’s false statements against Pakistan are well known all around the world. Their so called claim of terror attacks funded and encouraged by Pakistan, most famously in the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 is not new, all the investigations have very clearly revealed that it was planned by the Indian Intelligence to get some financial gains and to defame Pakistan in this regard.
Modi’s talking against terrorism, the congress men must have laughed it out. A terrorist was talking against terrorism. A person whose name should be written in the dictionary as a terrorist was talking against the terrorism. India is still involved in terrorism in the region by feeding different versions of the taliban. These Indian pay-rolled terrorists are advised to create unrest in Afghanistan, enabling India to jump in for so called help in development. Afghans should understand this strategy. Indians have no respect or love for Afghans. India’s role in the world politics is not new, they jump in as development partners, they obtain their required aim and they rush out. They are considered untrustworthy and treacherous partners.
It is very clear that all terrorism in the region especially in Pakistan is funded and encouraged by India. It should be stopped immediately if India and America are serious for peace in the area.
The world is now looking towards Hillary Clinton, who seems to have a rational approach which Obama never had towards peace of the world.
