‘Answer To Terrorists Cannot Have Any Rules’: S Jaishankar On India’s Response To Terrorism And Dealing With Pakistan

‘Answer To Terrorists Cannot Have Any Rules’: S Jaishankar On India’s Response To Terrorism And Dealing With Pakistan

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar reaffirmed India’s commitment to react against any act of fear-based oppression committed from beyond the borders on Friday, saying that there cannot be any rules in a country’s response to terrorists. While connecting with the youth at an occasion titled ‘Why Bharat Things: Opportunity for Youth and Support in the Worldwide Scenario’ in Pune, he said that there has been an alteration in the outside approach of the country since 2014, and the key alteration is the way fear-mongering is managed.

Giving the illustration of the 26/11 Mumbai assaults, Jaishankar said that if something like that happens presently and the country doesn’t respond at that point, how are we going to anticipate the following assault? He said that a country “cannot have any rules when reacting to terrorists” since they don’t play by the rules either. He said that after the 26/11 assaults, “the UPA government held different rounds of dialogue as it were to come to the conclusion that ‘the taken toll of assaulting Pakistan is more than the taken toll of not assaulting it’.” “Terrorists ought to not think; we are on this side of the line, so no one may touch us. Psychological militants do not play by any rules.

The reply to fear mongers cannot have any rules,” the Outside Undertakings Service said. Asked around which nations India finds troublesome to keep up connections with, Jaishankar pointed to Pakistan, which was in the neighbourhood, and “for that, we are as it were responsible.” He took note of the past history of fear-mongering acts executed from over the border. He said that in 1947, Pakistan sent tribal trespassers into Kashmir, and the Armed Forces countered them, and the integration of the state took place.

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He said that the government at the time named those intruders as ‘infiltrators’ and not ‘terrorists’, nearly as if they were speaking to an authentic force. “Narendra Modi came (to be Prime Minister) as it were in 2014, but this issue did not start in 2014. It began in 1947, not indeed after the Mumbai psychological militant assaults of 11/26. This began in 1947. To begin with, individuals came from Pakistan in Kashmir and assaulted Kashmir. It was fear-mongering. They were blasting towns and cities. They were slaughtering individuals. These were individuals from Pakistan’s northwest front. The Pakistani armed force put them on the frontlines and asked them to completely disturb Kashmir, saying, ‘We will come after you’,” S. Jaishankar said. What we did was send the armed forces, and the Kashmir integration took place. “We halted the armed force from doing its work. After that, we went to the UN,” he said, including that there was no mention of ‘terrorism’ in India’s requests some time ago, when the countries joined together on the Kashmir debate back then.