"Pakistan has created the Frankenstein. They will have to deal with it. The sickness is there. They have to cure it. They have to root out this evil"

Nirupama Rao blames Pak for failing to curb terror

Here, in this article from the Times of India, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao was reported to have rehashed the events of the Mumbai attacks in 2008 ahead of a scheduled meeting of foreign service officers between the two countries. While she laid blame on Pakistan, she did include an anecdote that notably dismissed the notion that Pakistani citizens were to blame. However, her rhetoric and train of thought made me think about the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when it emerged that most of the attackers had been Saudi Arabian. With Saudi Arabia being a 'friendly' nation in the eyes of the U.S., no blame was placed on the government and little mentioning of the nationalities of the hijackers took place after that. Here, the Foreign Secretary blatantly waves citizenship in the face of the media, as if by identifying those guilty of the heinous crime as Pakistani passport holders would somehow further legitimize her case.