India, June 8 -- It was an honour and privilege to be part of the multi-party delegation that toured Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. While it is not appropriate for me to share all the details of the interaction that we had, I can confirm a couple of things. One, every interlocutor we met understood and endorsed (implicitly, if not explicitly) our military response on May 7 to the horrific terrorist attacks in Pahalgam on April 22. India's right to defend itself folowing the terrorist attacks was thus accepted. Two, there was no, repeat, no hint whatsoever of any attempt to hyphenate India and Pakistan. As one important interlocutor in ASEAN put it: "India is India. Pakistan is Pakistan. We do not equate ...