By Sushil Kutty
Pakistan’s foreign minister for a short while Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is emerging as the top diplomat of South Asia. This is the view in the western world just getting to know that Pakistan is peacenik and India is warmonger, led by foreign minister S Jaishankar, who, according to Bilawal Bhutto aficionados, is not made for diplomacy!
“Jaishankar is a warmonger, not a diplomat. If he thinks threatening nuclear war is diplomacy, then India’s problem isn’t Pakistan, it’s extremism within its own cabinet,” Bilawal has been quoted as saying.
Bilawal has India’s “allegations” against Pakistan post the Pahalgam terror attack as “recycled” garbage. And Bilawal casts Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “sitting prime minister whose reputation speaks for itself”.
Benazir Bhutto’s son says Modi doesn’t have credentials to “dare lecture to Pakistan.” And speaking Bilawal’s language is none other than President Donald Trump. Never mind Trump’s top generals.
Bilawal says “Pakistan is a victim of terrorism”, which is also the opinion of the Trump administration. Bilawal says “threatening missile strikes and boasting about escalation is not a display of strength, it’s a dangerous sign of regional instability.”
Bilawal and Pakistan’s current friend and idol is President Trump, who is completely in the good books of Field Marshal Asim Munir. And Trump’s Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has total sway over Trump’s top generals, who say what they’re told to say.
Bilawal knows how to make a home in President Trump’s heart, right next to the aorta! Bilawal says India has been “attempting to sabotage President Donald Trump’s peace efforts in South Asia”, adding that Pakistan was “willing to solve all issues through dialogue.”
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has identified the villain: India! Who were the perpetrators of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack? Bhutto Zardari favours “false-flag Indians looking for an excuse to attack Pakistan.”
How would External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar handle such diplomacy? It’s the sort of diplomacy which would fly over Jaishankar, a career diplomat’s head.
In any case, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari doesn’t acknowledge Jaishankar as a diplomat, at all. Bilawal Bhutto’s idea of diplomacy, for the time being, is agreeing wholeheartedly to whatever the President of the United States peddles in the international bazaar.
Bilawal does with his command over the English language, learned and practiced in the United Kingdom. Whereas Modi’s English is jarring to Trump’s ears, Jaishankar despite years in English-speaking climes is still not a native English speaking foreigner.
Bilawal has learned by heart the play safe words “New Delhi’s allegation, without evidence…” So, “after the deadly April 22 attack on tourists in Occupied Kashmir’s Pahalgam, New Delhi without evidence, accused Islamabad of backing the attackers,” he said, triggering the “4-day military escalation between the two nuclear-armed countries.”
And so, S Jaishankar is “warmonger” and Prime Minister Modi stands by Jaishankar and regales Indians with threats to Pakistan and but for President Donald J Trump, there wouldn’t have been a “ceasefire”..
Bilawal agrees 100% with Trump that Trump brought about the truce between the two nuclear armed neighbours. That Trump balanced India with Pakistan and-Pakistan gave credit to Trump whereas India remains adamant that the truce was developed “bilaterally” by the DGMOs of India and Pakistan.
Of course, Trump has skin in the game. Pakistan to Trump is not only strategically placed geographically but also “cryptologically poised” for the cryptocurrency-crazy President of the United States.
President Trump and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif are allegedly joined at the hips in a Pakistan-based and Pakistan-promoted crypto enterprise in which Trump’s children including son-in-law Jared Kushner is also involved.
To Bilawal, Trump stopped India’s aggressive military action and Trump can’t stop at that. The deal is to defang India. And that can be done only by “internationalizing the Kashmir issue”. Add Trump’s voice to Field Marshal Asim Munir’s voice and Prime Minister Modi will agree to “table-talk”.
“Table-talk” in Pakistani lingo is “dialogue”. President Trump “brokered a ceasefire”, now he has to take it forward. As it is, who better than the President of the United States to bring Prime Minister Modi to heel? The Modi regime is resisting being hyphenated with Pakistan, but a United States President can bring the moon to earth!
In fact, Trump has already hyphenated India and Pakistan and there’s even talk of “India-Pakistan talks at a neutral venue”. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pakistan believes, can swing things Pakistan’s way. Right now, Bilawal is basking in the glory of doing a better job than super-diplomat Shashi Tharoor.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is talking about “peace”, and is the only real diplomat among the three — Bhutto, Tharoor and Jaishankar. Bilawal insists Kashmir is now a “global issue” and India can no longer brush it aside as an “internal matter”, especially after President Donald Trump said there should be “mediation”.
The US State Department “reiterated” President Trump’s resolve to work on the Kashmir dispute. “So, while I can’t speak to his plans, the world knows his nature, and I can’t speak to any details of what he might have in that regard,” State department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.
After Bilawal Bhutto led a delegation of “Pakistani diplomats” to a number of countries including the United States. Pakistanis say Bilawal beat Tharoor in Tharoor’s game and Trump’s crypto-driven wholesome praise is adding to the Bilawal legend. (IPA Service)
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