How farcical is the stage-managed tour of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) that New Delhi is giving foreign diplomats? Even their own local politicians are calling out the Modi government.
Omar Abdullah, a former chief minister of the occupied state, mocked the trip by ‘thanking’ the visiting dignitaries before asking them to “please send some real tourists from your countries”. Abdullah, who is no friend of Pakistan, was making the point that life for regular people, and regular tourists, is still miserable and nothing like what the dignitaries experienced on their trip — a third such trip by foreign envoys from as many as 24 countries over the last 18 months.
In fact, the envoys — also including those…