New Delhi: When terrorists subsidized through Pakistan slaughtered over 150 blameless Indians within the 26/11 Mumbai assaults, the rustic used to be nonetheless bleeding. Less than two years later, in August 2010, the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) executive, led through the Congress, made up our minds to praise the wrongdoer. Yes, you learn that proper.
While Ajmal Kasab, the lone captured terrorist, used to be nonetheless alive and the proof of Pakistan’s hand within the bloodbath used to be irrefutable, the grand outdated birthday party made up our minds to ship $25 million (Rs 115 crore then) to Pakistan for “flood relief”. A present from sufferers to their killers.
This isn’t fiction. This is the Congress style – a blueprint of the international relations, wrapped in out of place virtue-signaling. Rahul Gandhi’s political lineage, which had already did not safe India’s borders or reply with power, selected as an alternative to jot down a cheque to a terror-exporting regime that had simply soaked Indian soil in blood.
While Indians mourned, the Congress prolonged a heat diplomatic handshake to the very state shielding terror masterminds like Hafiz Saeed. At a time when even talking to Pakistan must had been unthinkable, then External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna proudly advised Parliament, “We cannot remain unconcerned with this grave humanitarian crisis… The Government has decided to increase its assistance to Pakistan from 5 million US dollars to 25 million US dollars.”
The Congress attempted to justify the help through wrapping it within the rhetoric of regional cohesion. Krishna claimed, “Prime Minister has rightly said that in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion…”
August 2010: Barely 2 years after 26/11, the place 150+ Indians have been slaughtered, UPA Govt introduced $25 MILLION assist to Pakistan for “Flood Relief”
Kasab used to be alive. Proofs have been out. But Congress nonetheless rewarded the enemy.This is Congress style. Rahul Gandhi’s philosophy. pic.twitter.com/HQRlgQCXeO
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But Indians requested then and nonetheless ask lately, What cohesion did Pakistan display when it despatched terrorists to Mumbai, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Pulwama and now Pahalgam?
Now Contrast That With Modi’s India
Fast ahead to 2025. Another Pakistan-backed massacre in Pahalgam claims 26 extra Indian lives, most commonly vacationers. But this time, India’s reaction used to be no longer folded arms. It used to be a clenched fist.
Within hours, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) executive within the Centre all of a sudden made up our minds and put the Indus Waters Treaty – a pact in position since 1960 that proficient Pakistan unfettered get entry to to India’s rivers – into abeyance. The transfer shocked Islamabad. No Indian executive had dared to the touch this treaty, even all the way through wars. Modi did it after one terror assault.
The sensible impact? India started diverting water from the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers, setting up bypass channels and garage programs to redirect waft into Indian fields and reservoirs. Harike and Hussainiwala barrage gates have been close. The symbolic dam of restraint used to be in spite of everything damaged.
Pakistan’s Fields Begin Turning Barren
The affect on Pakistan has been devastating. With enormously lowered influx to Mangla and Tarbela dams, Sindh and Punjab provinces are witnessing crop disasters on an enormous scale. Cotton, sugarcane and wheat, the spine of Pakistan’s agrarian financial system, are withering. Tubewells are drying up. Angry farmers have staged protests throughout Multan and Bahawalpur, blaming Islamabad’s “jihadi diplomacy” for frightening India into retaliation.
Four formal pleas had been despatched through Pakistan to India searching for talks to reinstate the treaty. They even appealed to the World Bank to mediate. New Delhi’s solution? Silence. The message – “Terror has a cost. You will now pay it in water.”
Apart from the water blockade, India has revoked business ties, recalled the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) standing for Pakistan, limited visas and scale back energy grid cooperation in Jammu and Kashmir’s border spaces.
National safety companies have fast-tracked cross-border strike protocols and military had been given higher latitude to reply to infiltration.
Meanwhile, the BJP management has categorically dominated out any talks until Pakistan shuts down terror camps and arms over fugitives like Dawood Ibrahim and Hafiz Saeed.
Two Attacks, Two Responses
What India noticed in 2011 used to be a central authority that bled and bowed. What it sees now could be a central authority that moves and stands company.
This isn’t just about assist or international relations, it’s about intent.
The Congress despatched bucks. Modi close dams. The Congress appealed for peace. Modi enforced power. The Congress forgave terror. Modi made terror pay.
The distinction? The Congress bent. Modi stood tall.