The US has always displayed a double-edged policy while taking on terror. Even after a much-touted and hyped change in guard at the top, this tendency has not been polished off. It is right now housing a person who, as a government head of Pakistan, had given full freedom to a nuclear scientist of that country, who has confessed of helping rogue states with smuggled nuclear technology. Pervez Musharraf had given all support to Taliban in his capacity as a military ruler of his country. He supported the terrorists even when they conspired against India and hijacked Indian Airlines plane. He was the person who inflicted a war on India that caused death to innumerable unclaimed Pakistani army personnel. He has been pushed out of the presidency that he had once usurped after toppling a democratically elected government of former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharief. He is being tried in his own country for swindling huge amount of money. The present President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari and his political outfit blames Musharraf for the killing of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto.

This man, known for his war-mongering attitude against India and for widely publicised anti-democratic sentiments, is wagging his tongue well inside the US. He has urged the US to pressurise India so that it starts talking with Pakistan. The question is, why is the US maintaining its open double standards even after suffering so much threat from the genre of people Musharraf stands for? Has the US forgotten that Musharraf was the person who allowed the former Pakistani cricket player Javed Miandad to give his son in marriage to the international terrorist and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim? Musharraf even wanted to attend the wedding party thrown up by the gangster!!

Now, if the US can allow this old offender and a blighter like Musharraf to land upon that ‘great’ country then there can be no reason why it should not allow the Chief Minister of Gujarat (INDIA) Mr. Narendra Modi to visit the US. Mr. Modi has said that he no longer wants or needs to go to that country as US industrialists are themselves queuing up in Gujarat before his government to get clearances for setting up business in Gujarat. He has been thrice elected to lead his state democratically. He has proved that he had no role in any sort of communal violence inside India. He has never worked to support terror in any form. He has never inflicted war on a nation.

Indeed, to put the records right at this moment, the Obama administration should reverse the wrong decision of not allowing Modi a US visa and nurturing Musharraf on its soil. This could, indeed, go a long distance in giving the face of the US a better makeover. The great nation deserves it!!