Chinese daily chides Sushma over UN speech

The editorial in state-run Global Times defending Pakistan against its failure to flush out terrorists is not surprising as Chi has always lavished praise on its “all-weather ally” for being at the “forefront” of tackling terrorism.

The newspaper, run by the Communist Party, said Sushma Swaraj’s speech at the UN reflected India’s arrogance and “bigotry” towards Pakistan. 

Sushma in her address last week at the UN General Assembly tore into Pakistan for sheltering terrorists.

“Why it is that today India is a recognized IT superpower in the world and Pakistan is recognized only as the pre-eminent export factory for terror?” she had said.

The newspaper asked what makes Sushma Swaraj believe that Pakistan exports terrorism and India is an IT superpower?

“There is indeed terrorism in Pakistan. But is supporting terror the country’s tiol policy? What can Pakistan gain from exporting terrorism? Money or honour? Is India really an IT superpower that produces engineers and doctors when it is hell-bent on believing Pakistan is evil?”

“It is politically imbecilic and unsophisticated for Indian elites to conclude that Pakistan exports terrorism. They should have seen the efforts and sacrifice that Pakistan has made to rid the world of terrorism and refrain from mixing disputes over terrorism with their own historical disputes,” the editorial said.

Chi has steadfastly shielded Pakistan from criticism from India, the US or any other country, and told them not to single out Islamabad on terror. 

In fact, Chi has repeatedly blocked India’s resolution at the UN to declare Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as an intertiol terrorist. 

The newspaper also mentioned that the Minister in her speech took a “dig at Chi for blocking intertiol efforts to blacklist Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar”.

“By trumpeting India’s justice and grandeur while rebuking its neighbour’s foolishness and ugliness, the minister (Swaraj) seems to have moved herself and the whole country.”

“But it is a grave disaster when Indians are confident in their rightness and their neighbours’ wrongs while super-proud of India’s capabilities in cultivating engineers and doctors. A country that despises others can hardly seek agreement over conflicts. “India’s bigotry toward Pakistan doesn’t match its much-vaunted ambition to be a world power. By inflaming tiolism in the Indian public, Indians become more determined to make India first than even US President Dold Trump’s ‘America First’,” it says. (IANS)