"India is currently facing its biggest diplomatic failure to date as it has not been able to gain anything from the US or Pakistan in its fight against terrorism," former BJP chief Rajnath Singh said.
Slamming the UPA government for failing to plug US funding for Pakistan which has misused it to foment terror activities against India, the BJP today said the country was facing its "biggest" diplomatic failure.
"India is currently facing its biggest diplomatic failure to date as it has not been able to gain anything from the US or Pakistan in its fight against terrorism," former BJP chief Rajnath Singh told day-long convention of J&K BJP here.
"Pakistan's shrewd diplomacy has outsmarted the UPA government in recent significant diplomatic developments pertaining to India's strategic interests", Singh said, referring to the US' willingness to forge a strategic partnership with Pakistan.
He claimed that the UPA government has not been successful in its repeated attempts to get requisite permission to interrogate Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley.
He pointed out that the probe report by a UN-appointed independent panel into the killing of former Pakistan prime minster Benazir Bhutto had stated that ISI continues to have close links Lashker-e-Toiba and has used the terror group's services to foment anti-India passion in Kashmir and elsewhere.
"India has failed to press the US on this issue during the prime minister's recent visit. The US administration has turned a blind eye to the concerns expressed by this report and instead, sanctioned financial assistance of $7.5 billion to Pakistan in war against terrorism", the former BJP president said.
"A major chunk of these billions of dollars is being diverted to finance terrorism against India. But UPA government has failed diplomatically to plug this US funding to Pakistan misused by it even as India calls the US as its strategic partner," Singh said.
Not only this, the US administration has played a cruel joke by earmarking $1.2 billion as anti-terrorism assistance to India, he said adding that UPA government should have refused this aid.
Despite the US' "non-cooperation", he alleged "the UPA government is moving forward to guarantee nuclear accident immunity to the US firms under Civil Nuclear Liability Bill and even surrendering the interests of the Indian farmers to American agribusiness companies."
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