US Snubs India’s War on Terror, Writes Former Diplomat
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Ghulam Nabi Azad, member of a multi-party delegation which visited various nations, at his residence, New Delhi, June 10, 2025
Extract from a post by India’s former Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Turkey, M K Bhadrakumar’s post on Indian Punchline.
“Ironically, even as PM hosted the seven multi-party delegations that returned home, in a hearing in the US Congress, at the House Armed Services Committee, the commander of the US Central Command, Gen. Michael Kurilla lavishly praised Pakistan as a key partner in counterterrorism.
The general unequivocally commended a “phenomenal partnership” on the part of the Taliban with Pakistan in the tribal areas on their border in the fight against ISIS with the support of US intelligence, which eliminated dozens of ISIS fighters and captured at least five high-value terrorists, who included Jafar, one of the key individuals behind the Abbey Gate bombing.
Gen. Kurilla disclosed that Pakistani army chief Gen. Asim Munir called him personally to inform, “I have caught him [Jafar], ready to extradite him back to the United States, please tell the Secretary of Defence and President.”
Gen. Kurilla added, “So we are seeing Pakistan, with the limited intelligence that we provide, go after them using their means to do that, and we are seeing an effect on ISIS Khorasan…
“And I would also tell you that since 2024 — the beginning — Pakistan has had over 1000 terrorist attacks in the western area [Baluchistan], killing about 700 security and [2500] civilians. They have an active counterterrorism fight right now, and they have been a phenomenal partner in the counterterrorism world.”
Interestingly, Gen. Kurilla alluded to a US-Russian convergence — and even possibly US-Iranian — in this regard, saying, “But remember, these [ISIS] are the same individuals that did the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow [in March 2024 in which the death toll touched 143 and more than a hundred people were injured.] They did the attack in Kerman [in January 2024 at a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani at his grave in eastern Kerman, eastern Iran, where two bomb explosions killed at least 95 people and injured 284 others.]”
The US Army general summed up: “That’s why we need to— we have to have a relationship with Pakistan and with India. I do not believe it is a binary switch that we can’t have one with Pakistan if we have a relationship with India. We should look at the merits of the relationship for the positives it has.”
Isn’t it all too obvious that Shashi Tharoor who led the parliamentary delegation to Washington was beating a dead horse?”
Courtesy: Indian Punchline
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