In the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack that saw 40 Indian security personnel getting killed in 2019, then Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan tried having conversation with Indian PM Narendra Modi at midnight, but the latter refused, says a book written by former Indian high commissioner Ajay Bisaria, as reported by The Times of India.
The report, which describes Pakistan as “spooked” due to tough Indian stance, says that Pakistan’s then-high commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood, who was in Islamabad at the time, rang up Bisaria at midnight on February 27, 2019. This was the first of the two nights Indian Air Force’s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was in Pakistani custody after a clash between Indian and Pakistani fighter jets. The Pakistani high commissioner was trying to diffuse the situation by trying to facilitate a conversation between Imran Khan and PM Modi. The latter reportedly ‘declined’ to have any such conversation.
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What happened that night and in the following days has now been penned by Bisaria in his upcoming book Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship Between India and Pakistan.
“India’s coercive diplomacy had been effective, India’s expectations of Pakistan and world had been clear, backed by credible resolve to escalate the crisis,” says Bisaria in his book as quoted by The Times Of India.
In the book, Bisaria reportedly also says that India had missiles aimed at Pakistan after the horrific Pulwama terror attack. India had not said officially that such a situation was indeed present at the time.
In his book, Bisaria has reportedly also said that Indian deft political manoeuvres appeared to have such an effect that they stoked a rethink in Pakistani military and diplomatic apparatus about how effective is the decades-old policy of supporting proxy terror groups against India. The strategy was developed by Pakistan after it realised that it could not win a straight military fight against India.
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