New Delhi, May 11 -- India must stop engaging with the world through a "hyphenated" lens with Pakistan and instead adopt a transactional foreign policy based solely on national interest, the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said on Sunday, after a ceasefire ended a brief military escalation between India and Pakistan.

In a policy note issued on Sunday, GTRI said the sequence of events-from India's missile strike under Operation Sindoor on 7 May to the IMF's prompt financial bailout for Pakistan on 9 May and the US-brokered ceasefire on 10 May - reflected an entrenched diplomatic tendency in Washington and global institutions to treat India and Pakistan as equals, even after repeated terror provocations by Islamabad.

The report, t...