New Delhi, May 2 -- Now that the United Nations has proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, political parties have unsurprisingly begun bickering over who gets or doesn't get credit. The Bharatiya Janata Party is thumping its chest that the international diplomacy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped bring the world together for the first time, after several failed attempts by successive governments to get Azhar declared a "global terrorist". Opposition parties, which wouldn't want Modi to use it to his advantage in the elections, are trying to point out compromises made by the government to take the sheen off his victory claims. The politicking will go on. But we must remember that it was former prime minister A.B. Vajpayee who drew the UN's attention to the global threat of terrorism and called upon the international community to act collectively. It was back in 2000, a whole year before the 9/11 attacks, that Vajpayee made a speech at the Millennium Summit of the UN General Assembly highlighting the dangers faced by democracies and urging quick adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. After 9/11, he raised the issue of state-sponsored terrorism at the same forum. India's diplomatic win has been nearly two decades in the making....