New Delhi: Reacting to the current feedback made by Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Overseas Minister Ishaq Dar on the enhancing ties between the 2 nuclear-powered nations, India on Friday stated “T” stands for terrorism, and never “tango”. “The related ‘T’ phrase there’s ‘terrorism’ and never ‘tango’…,” Exterior Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated in a weekly press briefing within the nationwide capital.
Earlier on Thursday, When reporters requested Dar about enhancing relations with New Delhi throughout a press convention in Islamabad, Dar stated: “It takes two to tango, cannot be a technique”. He known as upon India to “create an surroundings to assist enhance the relations”.
India-Pakistan relations
The ties between India and Pakistan got here underneath extreme pressure after India’s warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp in Balakot in Pakistan in February 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault. The relations additional deteriorated after India on August 5, 2019, introduced the withdrawal of particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and the bifurcation of the state into two union territories. Pakistan downgraded diplomatic ties with India after New Delhi abrogated Article 370.
India has been sustaining that it wishes regular neighbourly relations with Pakistan whereas insisting that the onus is on Islamabad to create an surroundings freed from terror and hostility for such engagement.
Pakistan’s then overseas minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India in Might 2023 to attend an in-person assembly of the overseas ministers of the SCO nations in Goa. It was the primary go to of a Pakistani overseas minister to India in virtually 12 years.
Jaishankar’s Pakistan go to
Earlier final 12 months, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had a visit to Pakistan to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit. The much-debated occasion was held from October 15 to 16. It was the primary time in almost 9 years that India’s overseas minister travelled to Pakistan even because the ties between the 2 neighbours remained tense over the Kashmir challenge and cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
The final Indian Overseas Minister to go to Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She had travelled to Islamabad to attend the ‘Coronary heart of Asia’ convention on Afghanistan held on December 8-9, 2015. Jaishankar, then India’s overseas secretary, was a part of Swaraj’s delegation.
Pakistan minister calls Jaishankar’s go to “constructive”
Pakistan’s Data Minister Attaullah Tarar described Jaishankar’s go to to Islamabad as an “ice breaker”. He stated a pull-aside assembly befell between Jaishankar and Dar at a dinner reception hosted by Sharif at his residence for the SCO delegates. It was joined by Pakistan Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi and the temporary exchanges figured to enhancing cricketing ties, in response to the PTI sources. Naqvi can be the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Earlier than departing from Islamabad, Jaishankar thanked PM Sharif and Overseas Minister Dar in a submit on ‘X’ for the hospitality and courtesies and described the SCO conclave as “productive”. “Departing from Islamabad. Thank PM @CMShehbaz, DPM & FM @MIshaqDar50 and the Authorities of Pakistan for the hospitality and courtesies,” Jaishankar stated. Two officers additionally referred to the exterior affairs minister’s submit on ‘X’ to say that his go to went off nicely and that it created a “refreshing” surroundings.
(With inputs from company)