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The seeming international isolation of Pakistan at that time and the pressure on it to return the pilot captured when the IAF plane was downed, were seen as a success of PM Modi’s diplomacy in the world.
The UN designation of JeM head Masood Azhar was the icing on the cake.
It all came together nicely for India then, not to speak of how it was milked for the election.
Later, there was euphoria that Pakistan had been kept out of the guest list for the new government’s inauguration.
The FATF’s threat to blacklist Pakistan by October was received in Delhi with a sense of vindication.
What India forgot, or ignored, was that, for the US, when it came to Pakistan, it was always going to be about Afghanistan. Pakistan is no longer looking isolated.

It has shown three other things —

1, Delhi cannot push its own ties with Pakistan into a freezer and forget about them, and expect the world to forget about them too;

2, with Trump ready to make deals with Pakistan, the government cannot be as gung-ho about the BJP’s ideological projects in Kashmir as statements by senior ministers suggest; and

3, it is Delhi that is looking isolated on Afghanistan.

What did Pakistan get out of the visit? Nothing tangible yet — military aid that the US suspended in January 2018 remains suspended; the $125 million announced days after Imran Khan’s visit is for end-use monitoring of Pakistan’s F 16s and was likely unrelated to the visit.
The Pakistan Army’s key role in bringing the Taliban to the table has pushed to the far recesses of Trump’s transactional mind his outbursts against “lying” “deceitful” Pakistan. In gratitude, he played Pakistan’s song by offering to mediate on the Kashmir issue.
For now, Trump’s repeated offers of mediation make it difficult, if not impossible, for the BJP to ram through its dream constitutional changes in J&K, even though the manner in which senior members of the government have been rattling the Kashmir cage indicates otherwise.

Loosing the Golden hour

Will we get timely healthcare when we need it is a question often asked by people in India. The answer, unfortunately, is no.
Cardiac arrest revival needs to be done within four minutes, angioplasty in a heart attack needs to conducted within 90 minutes and A road traffic accident victim needs to be provided on the spot first aid within 10 minutes and the victim’s vital parameters should stabilise in an hour.
Advanced ambulance care needs to reach the victim within four minutes. But even in Delhi, a patient cannot get such care.
The right to health and right to timely medical care is a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. But are we getting timely medical care?
The December 16, 2012 rape victim, for example, was transferred from Munirka to Safdarjung Hospital — a distance of 6.2 km allegedly covered in 45 minutes — without any help.

One report of the death of former president A P J Abdul Kalam quotes his secretary, Srijan Pal Singh. Singh apparently heard a long pause from the former president when he was two minutes into his speech at IIM-Shillong.
Singh’s account is is a class description of an impending heart attack. Kalam’s eye’s were three-quarters closed as he collapsed, according to his former secretary.
In the first 10 minutes, there are high chances of revival using hands only CPR followed with DC electric shock.
A study in The Lancet has shown that about 15 per cent of patients who survived needed at least 30 minutes of resuscitation. Why was not advanced CPR given to Kalam for the full period?