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In the discourse of Pakistan mediating betwixt the United States and Iran to resoluteness the ongoing struggle successful West Asia, Jairam Ramesh, wide caput (communications) of the Indian National Congress, connected Sunday (March 29, 2026) criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party led government’s overseas policy, alleging that Pakistan’s renewed planetary acceptance reflected failures successful India’s diplomatic engagement and communicative management.
In a station connected X, formerly Twitter, Mr. Ramesh described Pakistan arsenic a state wherever “democracy is simply a farce,” its system “a handbasket lawsuit babelike connected the IMF, China , and Saudi Arabia,” and 1 agelong regarded arsenic “a haven for terrorists” whose activities person targeted neighbours and countries crossed the world. He noted that successive U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden had taken a pugnacious attack toward Islamabad.
Mr. Ramesh argued that contempt Pakistan’s isolation aft the 2008 Mumbai attacks, it had precocious regained planetary acceptance. Citing External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s statement of Pakistan arsenic a “dalal”, helium said this displacement underscored what helium termed the “colossal failure” of the Modi government’s overseas policy, adjacent aft India’s subject occurrence successful “Operation Sindoor”.
He added that U.S. President Donald Trump, whom Prime Minister Narendra Modi has publically called a “good friend”, had besides contributed to Pakistan’s existent standing. Mr. Ramesh questioned wherefore the Prime Minister, contempt showcasing adjacent ties with Washington astatine events specified arsenic the Howdy Modi rally successful Houston successful 2019 and the Namaste Trump lawsuit successful Ahmedabad successful 2020, had “allowed this to happen”.
The Congress person further alleged that the government’s attempts to curry favour with the U.S., including what helium called a “betrayal of India’s farmers” done a commercialized woody granting American cultivation interests unprecedented marketplace access, had yielded nary diplomatic leverage.
Referring to the Prime Minister’s predominant nationalist claims of planetary outreach done telephone calls with satellite leaders, Mr. Ramesh said the “unravelling” of what helium described arsenic a “heavily property driven overseas policy” had exposed the “Vishwaguru” persona arsenic a “Vishwaphoney”.
