NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari the “promoter, justifier and spokesman of a terrorism industry”.
“Victims of terrorism do not sit together with its perpetrators to discuss terrorism,” Jaishankar said after a meeting of foreign ministers of the member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Goa.
“Bhutto Zardari came as Foreign Minister of a SCO member state; that’s part of multilateral diplomacy and we don’t see anything more than that,” Jaishankar said.
The two foreign ministers did not hold a bilateral at the SCO meeting.
“On terrorism, Pakistan’s credibility is depleting even faster than its forex reserves,” Jaishankar said in a clear swipe at Pakistan’s struggle with a huge financial crisis that has forced the country to knock from door to door for loans.
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