The Prime Minister has accused Musharraff of lying. That is undiplomatic. He could have accused him of creating “epistemological problems of sufficient magnitude to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear”
But it is not Musharraff’s fault. The War on Terrorism is open season as far as distortion of language goes. So Pakistan is an ‘ally’ in the said war. Its army is actually a bulwark against the assault of fundamentalists, not the ones who introduced fundamentalism in the first place. And Pakistan is actually concerned about democracy in Kashmir and about the fate of religious minorities. If elections get disrupted in Kashmir because terrorists go around murdering people, it will actually prove that India’s commitment to democracy is a sham.