Silence of Mr 'Chowkidar'.

"Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group's leader Shahid Latif, the mastermind of the 2016 attack on Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, and his security guard Hashim Ali were shot dead by three gunmen while they were offering prayer in a mosque in Daska city of Punjab province, over 100 km from Lahore." DH. "Prayer leader and close associate of Latif, Maulana Ahad was also hit by bullets and was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to his wounds." "Without naming the country, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Usman Anwar said a 'rogue nation and its hostile intelligence agency are involved in executing the terror attack in Pakistan'." He means India, of course. On 1 October, "Mufti Qaiser Farooq was gunned down by 'unknown men' in Karachi, Pakistan media reported. He was a close associate of Hafeez Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack." HT. A long list of enemies of India have been killed in recent months, including Khalistanis Avtar Singh Khanda in a Birmingham hospital of a mysterious illness, Paramjit Singh Panjwar shot dead in Lahore, Harwinder Rinda in a Lahore hospital of a drug overdose, and Rinda's aide Happy Sanghera killed in Italy." FP. Normally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have been boasting about how he has been bashing enemies of India single-handedly but there is an eerie silence from the PM. Before the 2019 general election, "Calling himself the nation's 'chowkidar' (guard), PM Modi said, 'It was this chowkidar's government that had the courage to conduct surgical strikes on land, sky and space'." TOI. This was humility, guts and decisiveness rolled into one. His supporters would have choked up. A surgical strike was carried out by Indian Army commandos on a Pakistani army post inside Pakistan on 29 September 2016." wikipedia. Again in April 2019, Modi took credit for bombing of a suspected terrorist training camp at Balakot in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and even boasted of scaring Pakistan with 12 missiles if captured pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was not returned unharmed. TIE. Although the weather had turned bad he gave the go ahead for the attack. "One was secrecy...second, I said I have a raw vision, the clouds can benefit us too. We can escape the radar." HT. Such leadership! Sniff. Of course, clouds don't stop radar. But, who cares? It's the vision that counts. The reason Modi is unable to take credit for all those killed is because Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of a targeted killing of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada. CBC. India denied the accusations and retaliated ferociously by stopping visas to Canadians and asking Canada to withdraw over 40 of its diplomatic staff from India. BBC. Undaunted, in phone calls to the President of the UAE and the King of Jordan, Trudeau  brought up relations between India and Canada and emphasized the importance of "respecting the rule of law and the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations". News18. If Modi claims credit for the other killings everyone will immediately assume that India killed Nijjar as well. It's as if his ace of spade has been trumped by the two of clubs. How frustrating.