Jaishankar on India-Pakistan connections–

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday released a demanding caution to Islamabad, specifying that any type of effort to utilize terrorism as a tool of state plan versus India would certainly welcome significant repercussions.

While addressing an inquiry on India-Pakistan relationships, Jaishankar stated, “India has changed — I wish I could say Pakistan has changed. Unfortunately, they continue to develop bad habits in many ways. When I look back, I would say the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks were a turning point. Indians collectively realised that such behaviour from a neighbour could no longer be tolerated. That feeling was very strong, and it may not have been fully understood by the government at the time. However, after the government changed, this message has been conveyed very firmly to Pakistan — that if acts of terrorism occur, there will be consequences.”

26/11 was a transforming factor in India-Pak relationships

Jaishankar likewise emphasied that the 2008 Mumbai fear strike was a transforming factor in India’s connection withPakistan He stated that the strike made Indians really feel that such habits from a nearby nation might no more be endured.

On 26 November 2008, 10 Pakistani terrorists executed assaults at a number of locations in Mumbai, eliminating 166 individuals throughout a siege that lasted almost 60 hours.

In a veiled dig at the Congress- led UPA federal government, which was in power at the time, Jaishankar stated the general public highly really felt that such activities from an adjoining nation might no more be endured, yet the federal government at that time really did not totally realize that view.