India, May 6 -- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's statement calling for India and Pakistan to exercise "maximum restraint" in the wake of the Pahalgam massacre is part of his standard template, as he gave a similar statement after February 26, 2019, Balakot air strike the post-Pulwama terror strike by Pakistan based Islamic terrorists.

While Guterres condemned the killing of civilians at Pahalgam on April 22, he forgot to mention that the attackers killed the tourists on the basis of religious identity and did not utter a word against Islamic terrorism.

True to his politics, Guterres spoke against India after the Narendra Modi government abrogated Article 370 from then state of Jammu and Kashmir. He asked India to refrain from tak...