New Delhi: Pakistan is now also planning its own diplomatic offensive against India after vociferously denying that it has any hand in the Mumbai terror attacks.
Islamabad is planning to ask its envoys to mobilise the international community and rally it against India's aggression after rubbishing India’s claim that there is enough evidence that Pakistani terror groups were behind the dastardly terror attack in Mumbai.
Pakistan also claims that it has arrested an Indian who is accused of setting off a truck bomb on Wednesday in Lahore.
Later, Pakistani Parliament demanded that India shut down terror cells and called on the world community to put pressure on New Delhi.
So now Pakistan is trying to be a victim of terror rather than a terror state.
Also, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned the world that India was planning surgical strikes on Pakistan and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani warned that any eventuality would lead to an all-out war.
"I think there is a tremendous pressure from public on this, otherwise we did have good working relations with each other," says Prime Minister Gilani.
And with an eye on Islamic capitals, Pakistan's top clerics, too, joined the chorus against India.
"We want to make this clear that if there is any attack on Pakistan, the enemy will repent," says Mufti Munib-U-Rehman a prominent Pakistani Ulema.
Indian diplomats suspect the crescendo was officially orchestrated with only one objective in mind to divert attention away from the real issue- Islamabad's duplicitous behaviour on the identity of Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab and its lack of interest in cracking down on the infrastructure of terror.
The chorus is now drawing in even moderate Pakistani politicians, all of them echoing the government's line on Kasab that India's case is not convincing even though America's top intelligence body has endorsed it.
Punjab Chief Minister and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's younger bother Shahbaz Sharif said Pakistani military’s nuclear capability has stopped India from launching an attack.
"If Pakistan wouldn't have been an atomic power, India wouldn't have spared us," said Sharif.
The final word from President Asif Ali Zardari vowing to defend Pakistan to the last drop of his blood was dramatically played out on state run Pakistan Television. But the exercise of claiming victim hood sits ill with the worldwide perception of Pakistan as a terror state not yet out of control but perhaps getting there.
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