‘Colossal failure of diplomacy’: Congress after Centre says Delhi ‘can’t broker’ Iran-US talks
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With Islamabad mediating peace talks between the United States and Iran, the Congress on Thursday said that the “colossal failure” in India’s diplomacy, outreach and narrative management have made a “broken country” like Pakistan a “broker country”.
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The statement came a day after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India does not view itself as a “dalaal”, or broker, like Pakistan. Jaishankar made the comments at an all-party meeting convened by the government on the West Asia conflict.
During the meeting, the Union government said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made it clear to US President Donald Trump that India “wants to see the war coming to an end” and it is “affecting everyone”, the Deccan Herald reported.
Responding to Jaishankar’s comments in a social media post, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the external affairs minister is “doing his best to cover up India’s extreme embarrassment and the setback to its regional diplomacy”.
For Pakistan to “even be…considered for a mediating role is a most damning indictment of both the substance and style of…Modi’s diplomacy”, said the MP.
“Even after the communally incendiary and poisonous statements of the Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir provided the oxygen for the terror attacks in Pahalgam…we have been unable to isolate Pakistan on the international stage,”...