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Controversial Paris handshake: Sharif embarrasses Modi 12/3/2015 12:17:37 AM Early Times Report JAMMU, Dec 2: The Monday Paris (France) handshake of Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi created much hype in India and Pakistan. It was only natural. After all, the two Prime Ministers of "hostile" nations met with each other after many months and in the wake of strained relations, in the wake of what happened after the much-talked Ufa (Russia) meet, shook hands and sat on a sofa to interact with each other for less than two minutes. Some said it was an informal handshake and such things do happen at places where the world leaders gather together to conduct some important business. Some said it was a pre-planned meet. Some said the meeting between the two Prime Ministers finally broke the ice and there was the possibility of both India and Pakistan resuming the stalled dialogue process. Strategic affairs experts were also not very pleased with the Paris handshake. In India, the entire opposition, plus the BJP's alliance partner in New Delhi and Maharashtra, questioned the Paris handshake. It asked the Prime Minister to take the nation into confidence by telling it as to what transpired during the short meeting. The opposition alleged that Prime Minister went back on his promise that talks and terror couldn't go on and that the present dispensation in New Delhi has no foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan. The India media, on its part, tried its best to know from the BJP spokespersons as to what actually happened during the meeting. It talked about the body language of the two Prime Ministers. "Something serious must have happened during the meeting," the media said. The clueless, confused and ill-informed BJP spokespersons only cut sorry figure as they had no comment to make or no information to share, thus giving the opponents an opportunity to further corner Prime Minister Narendra Modi and question his leadership qualities and intentions. And as for Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, he left no stone unturned to embarrass Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Immediately after the Paris handshake, he in London told reporters that "he didn't meet Prime Minister Modi; Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to him; and the talks between them were very fruitful". The embarrassed Indian Prime Minister and the clueless and ambivalent BJP leadership, which is bereft of any ideology and which knows nothing about statecraft, will have to do a lot of explaining to clear the air. Who is managing the India's foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan? Who is there in the South Block who is ill-advising the Prime Minister or the Indian Foreign Office to conduct himself/itself in a manner they conducted after the BJP-led NDA Government assumed office in New Delhi in May 2014?   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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