Jaishankar Slams Pakistan's Open Terror Camps, Calls It Neighborhood Exception
As of Wednesday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India’s relationship with Pakistan is an “exception” among its neighbours. India is compelled to interact with each neighbour according to its conduct, Jaishankar said.
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New Delhi (India) January 7: The External Affairs Minister, S Jaishankar said on Wednesday that India's relationship with Pakistan was one of an "exception" among its neighbours and accused Islamabad of openly supporting terrorism for many years.
Pakistan's Decades-Long Terror Support
Dr S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister, criticized Pakistan for years of running training camps to aid terrorism in the country. He said this while speaking with members of the Indian community in Luxembourg today.
Jaishankar said no other country in India’s neighbourhood has adopted policies similar to Pakistan’s against a neighbouring state.
“For decades, you had these training camps, not secret training camps; they're all training camps in the big cities of Pakistan, very open, where the state, the military supports terrorism, and they try to normalise it as though it's their right to do it. Nobody buys it anymore. Everybody knows that these are people who are supporting the state. It's a very unpalatable reality but it's one which we cannot be oblivious to," he said.
Operation Sindoor and Global Hypocrisy
At the global level, some countries only act when it is convenient to them, and they also provide free advice to India, Dr Jaishankar said. The Minister further stated that there has been a similar scenario from Operation Sindoor, where some countries had sounded alarm about tensions but failed to take note of issues in their own region.
Referencing the international reactions to the operation, Jaishankar questioned the validity of those concerns, arguing that these states should first look at the violence and instability in their own regions.
"Sometimes you hear people say, like it happened during Operation Sindoor. Now if you ask them, say, oh really you're worried, why don't you look at your own region? And ask yourself, what are the levels of violence there, how much risks have been taken, how much worry the rest of us have about what you are doing. But that's the nature of the world. People, what they say is not what they do. And we have to accept it in that spirit as well," he said.
Boosting India-Luxembourg & EU Ties
He also highlighted India’s significant deepening of partnership with Luxembourg in political, business and technology contexts. The Minister also took the opportunity to be thankful to the Indian diaspora for strengthening connectivity between the two countries.
EAM is positive about closer ties from India to the EU in 2026. India will spend more time, energy, and attention on its engagement with Europe, India said. He pointed out that at the same time, given Luxembourg’s significant place in the EU, in Brussels Jaishankar also mentioned its role here in furthering India’s initiative to boost its ties with the European Union.
He said negotiations of free trade agreement are in the process at a more mature level across sectors including technology, defence, connectivity and mobility. Jaishankar added that there is an increased focus on reassessing priorities and with that the situation is tilting India and the EU closer, predicting a positive uptick of bilateral relations over the year ahead.
