Pakistan, over decades, was trying to use cross-border terrorism to bring India to the table and used it as its “core policy”, which was made “irrelevant” by the Narendra Modi government, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. He emphasised that India would not deal with Pakistan on their terms in which “practice of terrorism is deemed as legitimate”, and indicated that the neighbouring country has to create a conducive environment free of terror.
"What Pakistan was trying to do, not now but over multiple decades, was really to use cross-border terrorism to bring India to the table. That, in essence, was its core policy. We have made that irrelevant by not playing that game now. It's not a case that we won't deal with a neighbour. After all, at the end of the day, a neighbour is a neighbour, but it is that we will not deal on the basis of terms that they set where the practice of terrorism is deemed as legitimate and effective in order to bring you to the table," Jaishankar said in an interview with ANI, while answering a query in relation to his new book 'Why Bharat Matters'.
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