Bracketed with Maldives.

"Last week, Trump announced that he was promoting Gor, his personnel chief to be the next US Ambassador to India." "Now Sergio Gor is set to become Trump's man in India, while also overseeing relations with other South and Central Asian countries." Apparently Barack Obama tried to appoint Richard Holbrooke as special envoy in charge of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2009 but dropped the idea when India lobbied against it. BBC. This is a deliberate insult to Prime Minister Narendra Modi because PM Modi "clearly" told US President Donald Trump that "no talks were held at any level on the India-America trade deal or on the mediation between India and Pakistan by America." BBC. Mr Modi has claimed total credit for the ceasefire after India attacked Pakistan's terrorist infrastructure on 7 May 2025 in Operation Sindoor, with "precision, professionalism and purpose". pib.gov.in. "In his first address to the nation after Operation Sindoor, PM Modi...said while Pakistan pleaded with India to stop the military offensive, New Delhi considered a ceasefire deal only after they promised to stop their misadventure." "Pakistan was appealing to the world to reduce tensions and after being badly beaten, the Pakistani Army contacted the DGMO on the afternoon of May 10," he said. News18. However, Trump "claimed once again to have stopped the tension between India and Pakistan, adding that it was going to be a nuclear war." ET. "I said, I don't want to make a trade deal with you. You guys are going to end up in a nuclear war." "Within about five hours, it was done," Trump claimed for the fortieth time. BT. So, Mr Modi insisting that the conflict ended in total victory for India and that Trump had nothing to do with it makes Trump a liar. Question is: has Trump taken it as a personal insult? Sergio Gor "will not just be the US ambassador to India but also Special Envoy for South and Central Asian affairs." ""As Gor will be overseeing 12 other countries besides India - the Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - the Trump is clearly signalling that it does not see India as a strategic peer but a part of a regional bloc." "Viewed through a regional prism, India will once again be bracketed with Pakistan, a hyphenation Indian diplomacy had succeeded in breaking over time," wrote Bharat Bhushan. Also, by bracketing India with tiny nations like the Maldives it belittles India to an insignificant and inconsequential nation. "Under Modi's premiership, Hindtuva has been increasingly embedded into socio-legal-political system." The Conversation. Nine of the 12 countries that Gor will be in charge of are Muslim. This may be a calculated riposte to Mr Modi. Mr Modi has been forced to attend the 2025 Tianjin SCO summit where many of these Islamic countries were present as well as Pakistan's supporters in the Sindoor conflict - China, Turkey and Azerbaijan. wikipedia. Not just Pakistan, India reduced to the level of Maldives. Some achievement!