'India has no interest in improving ties with Pakistan...prime external concern is China': Foreign policy expert
‘Can change friends, not...’: Omar on Shankar Aiyar's ‘respect Pak’ remark "An effort to bring down LoC tensions with Pakistan so that more attention could be focused on the LAC (and China challenges beyond)," the expert said. He called the routine bashing of Pakistan performative.
"Indian politicians and TV anchors routinely rail against and threaten Pak-but that's largely performative," Kugelman said. The saffron party has boasted about taking a tough line on Pakistan.
In the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, BJP leaders have returned to the 2019 Pulwama attack on the campaign trail. However, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi asked the ruling party to fight the polls on real issues.
PM Modi will reply to Pakistan's bullets with…, says Amit Shah Questioned on the row over Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's remarks, Priyanka Gandhi asked why the issue is being discussed now when the statement is an old one. 'Respect Pakistan...it has Atom Bomb': Mani Shankar Aiyar lands Congress in soup A video has gone viral in which Aiyar is heard saying that India should give respect to Pakistan as it is a sovereign nation and engage with it as it also possesses an atom bomb.
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