Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif condemned the drone attack near Mecca by invoking eleven strong adjectives in a tweet. The Mecca defence pact wasn’t uttered even once. When the fig leaf drops, Islamabad cowers behind metaphors. A hollow Pakistan answers drones with a dictionary. In Sharif’s own words: vile, shameful, exceptional.
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