'They Are Obsessed': Jaishankar Questions Bid To 'Hyphenate' India with Pakistan After J&K Move

Questioning bids to “hyphenate” India with Pakistan following nullification of Article 370, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said it is being done by those who are obsessed with the post-August 5 developments in Jammu and Kashmir.

You are really being very semantic about it. How do you hyphenate a country, which is one-eighth of your economic size, which is ‘reputationally’ your exact opposite? Jaishankar told a group of Indian reporters, virtually taking exceptions to India and Pakistan being talked of in the same breath. The external affairs minister was responding to a query about India and Pakistan being “hyphenated” once again following abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir special status after nullification of Article 370 of the Constitution.

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