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Desperate propaganda is self defeating

Pakistan’s vain and desperate attempt at propagating a false Stockholm syndrome on condemned prisoner Kulbhushan Jhadav (in the video deriding Indian High Commissioner) will fail the test it seeks at ICJ for an equal playing field. This political denouement is blatantly bereft of statecraft and stabs diplomatic protocol defeating Pakistan in the long term anyway. Pakistan is posturing only to negotiate … just to restore its self-respect where its bluff of being victimised  by terrorist violence has been called by US President Donald Trump as well as realpolitik in Baluchistan. With the threat of American aid disappearing, coupled with the absence of a robust economy, little can Pakistan risk war against India which is led by a resolute Hindu party that has never reconciled to Partition. Pakistan is even unable to admit that it wishes to negotiate for the release of Pakistan’s terrorists arrested and in India’s custody. Even if it could, how can Pakistan establish that its t