India should choose its words carefully apropos Afghan-Pak tensions

March 10, 2017 08:20

M K Bhadrakumar observes: By any reckoning, the Indian statement on the terrorist attack on the Sardar Daud Khan hospital in Kabul on Friday has been intemperate and excessive.

What emotion Delhi sought to convey through this statement remains unclear.

Sorrow? Pain? Anger? Frustration? Revenge? Threat?

It is all rather mumbo-jumbo, as if random phrases culled out from the dusty files have been assembled to form sentences.

The result is that India sounds bombastic and aggressive and that only goes to fuel the Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions, which are already cascading. Surely, it cannot be the Indian policy to set Kabul and Islamabad against each other's throats?

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