Goa: After the conclusion of the SCO Foreign Ministers Meeting on Friday, External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar took a jab at Pakistan and said Pakistan’s credibility is depleting faster than even its Forex reserves.
EAM S Jaishankar called out Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto on their double standards on terrorism and said “As a Foreign Minister of an SCO member state, Mr Bhutto Zardari was treated accordingly. As a promoter, justifier, and spokesperson of a terrorism industry which is the mainstay of Pakistan, his positions were called out and countered including at the SCO meeting itself,”.
He further slammed Pakistan’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and called him the “spokesperson of the terrorism industry.”
He said “They are committing acts of terrorism. I don’t want to jump the gun on what happened today but we are all feeling equally outraged. On this matter, the terrorism matter, I would say that Pakistan’s credibility is depleting faster than even its Forex reserves.”
Ruling out bilateral talks till Pakistan addresses India’s concerns on cross-border terrorism, Jaishankar said victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism to discuss terrorism.
He added “Victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism to discuss terrorism. Victims of terrorism defend themselves, counter acts of terrorism, they call it out, they legitimize it and that is exactly what is happening.”
Highlighting his bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, EAM Dr S Jaishankar said “issue is that there is an abnormal position in the border areas, along the boundary. We had a very frank discussion about it…We have to take the disengagement process forward.”
He further added “I have made it very clear, publicly as well, that India-China relations are not normal and cannot be normal if peace and tranquility in the border areas are disturbed.”
India has consistently raised the issue of Pakistan’s continued support to cross-border terrorism and terrorist infiltration. It has said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have borne the brunt of this terrorism campaign for decades and continue to do so.
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