The Congress on Friday made it clear that it will question Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Pakistan policy in Parliament, accusing him of falling in Pakistani trap by accepting the theory of demarcation between state and non-state actors. The party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the Modi government's decision to invite Pakistan's Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has legitimised Pakistan's 'singsong' and has contradicted India's long-standing firm stand that there is no difference between state and non-state actors and in fact the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI was behind all terror attacks in India.
Another Congress leader, Anand Sharma, said since the attack happened in India and was plotted in Pakistan, the NIA team should go to Pakistan and interrogate Masood Azhar. India should have compelled Pakistan to agree on this. But just an hour later, the NIA in a statement said, a team of Indian investigators will be travelling to Islamabad, in an unprecedented sign of cooperation between the two countries. But, the Congress leaders recalling the BJP's shrill rhetoric on Pakistan while in Opposition, believe that Modi government has fallen into a deadly trap by allowing the probe team into the air base and that nothing except embarrassment and dismay would come out of it. They suspect the government either caved in under pressure or took the step out of inexperience.
Sharma also claimed that strategy had not been discussed with the cabinet committee on security as home minister Rajnath Singh had admitted he came to know of the team's visit through the media.
"After the Ufa meet, two major attacks took place -- in Udhampur and Gurdaspur. The government has not told the nation what assurances Pakistan gave on these attacks. Still, a decision was taken to allow a Pakistani team to probe in India. We don't even know what the two national security advisers are discussing," he said.
Singhvi said the very decision to invite the Pakistani investigators and not objecting to the ISI, master of all terror attacks in India, despite the countrywide opposition,"not only gave the status of an investigator to the accused/guilty party but also accepted unconditionally Pakistan's oft-repeated distinction between state and non-state actors, contrary to India's consistent stand to never recognise this artificial distinction made by Pakistan."
He also hit out at home minister Rajnath Singh, defence minister Manohar Parrikar and BJP president Amit Shah presenting a strange spectacle of exhorting Indians to have faith in Pakistan as its JIT would confirm involvement of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and its chief Maulana Masood Azhar in the Pathankot terror attack. He wondered how would they now react since the JIT has reportedly concluded that they found nothing to link JeM or Azhar to the dastardly Pathankot attack.
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