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Shekhar Gupta: Modi walks into his own Pakistan trap

Weigh the facts and see who it is that walked into a trap, and who laid it

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Shekhar Gupta
In the years I used to travel frequently to Pakistan to report, one of its illustrious high commissioners to New Delhi asked me in jest and some exasperation as I made yet another visa application: Why are you so interested in my country’s affairs?

Because, excellency, I replied with usual journalistic chutzpah, Pakistan’s politics is India’s internal affair.

Little would we imagine that the tables would turn and India’s politics would become Pakistan’s internal affair instead. That is precisely how we should read its Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement earlier this week that a second term for Narendra Modi and
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