JK News Today
Jammu, January 02: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke about India’s “bad neighbours” who decide to “deliberately, persistently, unrepentantly continue with terrorism”, adding that India has the right to protect itself from such “neighbours”.
“We will exercise that right. How we exercise that right is up to us. Nobody can tell us what we should do or not. We will do whatever we have to do to defend ourselves. It is a common sense proposition,” he said.
In an apparent dig at Pakistan and India’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty in response to the Pahalgam terror attack last year, Jaishankar said, “Many years ago, we agreed to a water arrangement, a water-sharing arrangement, because the belief, the underpinning of that, was that it was a gesture of goodwill.”
But if you have decades of terrorism, there is no good neighbourliness, Jaishankar said.
He added, “If there is no good neighbourliness, you do not get the benefits of that good neighbourliness. You cannot say, please share water with me, but I will continue terrorism with you.”
