Pakistan's foreign minister Kasuri's comments was symptomatic of a government run by the military. No democratic state could have ratcheted up the tension and aded fuel to the fire by linking a tragedy with a particular bilateral dispute.
Pakistan has been harping for long that it has no truck with terrorists who strike Indian targets. Ther has been a lot of atacks in the recent past in Pakistani cities for which India has expressed condolensces.
Both the nations were moving slowly but surely towards scaling down the tension that was built up in the last couple of years. Track two diplomacy was on an overdrive and both countries were seeing tangible results.
But Kasuri's comments was inappropriate at this juncture when our financial capital was reeling under terrorist attacks.
This has again proved that the very essence of Pakistan lies in a confrontation with India and it is still scavenging the remains of history to piece together a viable basis for its very existence.
Is it really the secular nation that Jinnah envisaged, or is it a nation which needs to re-assert itself as Islamic, caring not a fig for the sensibilities of others except their own ?
