Once Growth Starts In Jammu And Kashmir, Pak’s 70 Year’s Plans Will Collapse

Once India triggers development in Jammu and Kashmir, all of Pakistan’s plans for the last 70 years against the state would come to naught, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the top US to think tank here. The minister also pointed out to the Washington audience that the current suspension of the mobile network in the Kashmir valley is aimed at preventing the misuse of internet and social media for radicalizing and mobilizing anti-Indian forces and to ensure that no loss of life occurs during the transition to the development phase.

Jaishankar made the remarks in reply to a question after his major foreign policy speech at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a top American think-tank. “There are reactions out there. There are vested interests built over 70 years. There are local vested interests. There is vested interest across the border,” said Jaishankar, conceding that “there would be transitional risks when one changes the status quo on anything in a very substantial way and there will be reactions”.

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