Pak’s intentions behind Kartarpur Corridor

Weeks after ground breaking ceremony amid fanfare by Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 28, 2018, Pakistan has now shared a draft agreement with India on the Kartarpur corridor issue.
Besides talking of peace in the draft, Pakistan on Monday claimed that its decision to move forward on the proposal is in line with Islamic principles that “advocate respect for all religions and Pakistan's policy of promoting inter-faith harmony and religious tolerance”.
But the sequence of the events that took place after the Foundation Stone Ceremony at Kartarpur Sahib, Pakistan's leaders had already started revealing their true intention and strategy behind the move. Many in the Pakistani establishment and media have cited it as a diplomatic masterstroke by their leadership. The way the Kartarpur Corridor issue has been handled by Pakistan post groundbreaking ceremony, it gave a clear hint that they neither care for the religious sentiments of Sikhs in true sense nor were they serious about solving the bilateral issues. Instead, they are simply looking for some transient gains and opportunity of embarrassing India.
On the very next day of event, Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi with his iniquitous smile said that India was trapped in Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's “Googly” and was forced to send two of its ministers on the occasion. Yet another minister in Imran Khan's cabinet was also noticed speaking in the same language. India has taken a clear stand that it will not have any diplomatic interaction on peace until Pakistan renounces its support to terrorist operations against India in Kashmir and elsewhere. What India did on the occasion by sending two Sikh ministers at the ceremony was in the larger interests and aspirations of the millions of Sikhs world over; hence there was no need to mix the religion with politics.
Then Pakistan President Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi shot another controversy by terming Kartarpur move as ‘a great chaal (move or strategy)' when he made this remark in an interview to a Pakistani channel. Qureshi's controversial comments attracted sharp criticism from India when the External Affairs Minister bluntly said that his comments exposed him and that Pakistan has ‘no respect for Sikh sentiments'.
One may wonder if, apropos to a religious function, this Googly remark from Pakistan's Foreign Minister's was really necessary in the context of the Kartarpur Corridor, and by saying so what is that he actually wanted to convey to India in particular and the world community at large.