Pluralism in Geneva, containers in Islamabad: Pakistan's double-faced reality exposed once again
Islamabad, Oct 5 (IANS) Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the Speaker of Pakistan's National Assembly, stood before the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva on July 29, 2025 and warned his colleagues against populism, ultra-nationalism and "narrow interpretations of nationalism", before closing with the line -- "It is time to promote pluralism. It's time to accept diversity." Fourteen months later, on September 25, 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took the podium at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly and told the world that Pakistan had chosen dialogue over confrontation, that it would give Kashmiris "full diplomatic, political, and moral support", and that the demolition of a mosque in Saharanpur was proof of Islamophobia in India.
