New Delhi: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday pulled up double standards of the West (UK, Canada, Belgium, Australia, US) on the Kashmir issue, stating that what was originally an “invasion”” had been reframed as a dispute with both the attacker and the victim put on a par.
He said when the West goes out into other countries, “it’s in pursuance of democratic freedoms” and “when other countries come into the West, it seems to have a very malign intention.”
He was speaking at a session of the Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual geo-political conference organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research Foundation.
“After the Second World War, the longest-standing illegal, I would say presence, occupation of a territory by another country pertains to India, what we saw in Kashmir…,” said Jaishankar.
