AAP: Using trade as carrot, US forced India to back out from pounding Pakistan

The Aam Aadmi Party today sought answers from the BJP-led Union Government for “deviating” from India’s policy thus far on third-party intervention on Indo-Pakistan issues, including Kashmir, and “bowing down” to the pressure exerted by US President Donald Trump.

Party’s senior leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should reveal terms on which the ceasefire with Pakistan had been announced, when all that Pakistan did was continue to send drones in both Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

“How could the President of USA first announce that he had initiated dialogue between the two countries and India and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire after his intervention? It was after his tweet that India announced a pause to the conflict. How did India agree to a third-party intervention and why is the PM quiet on this issue,” he asked.

Using trade as a carrot, they have forced India to back out from pounding Pakistan and punishing it for spreading terror in India, he alleged.

Sisodia, who is also the AAP incharge for Punjab, said that many questions on the current situation remained unanswered. “The country wants to know that if Pakistan is a rogue state, then why did we declare a ceasefire? If Pakistan bent before India, as the PM has claimed, why has there been no written agreement with the Indian government on ceasefire. Pakistan seeks forgiveness, bends, and you are ok with it? Did the Pakistan-sponsored terrorists who killed innocent tourists in the Baisaran valley show any mercy towards women who begged for mercy when they were killing their husbands?” he questioned.

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