Jammu, May 23 -- Says India-Pak skirmishes response to terror, not Kashmir

New Delhi, May 23:Accusing the West of backing military regime - and undermining democracy in Pakistan for the past eight decades, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that recent skirmishes between India and Pakistan were not over Kashmir but in retaliation to a terrorist attack.

In an interview to an international newspaper, Jaishankar took a dig at the West's backing of Pakistan over the past decades: "Our borders have been violated by Pakistan in Kashmir ever since our independence in 1947. And what have we seen in the eight decades since then? That large, democratic Europe, to use your own term, has stood side by side with military dictatorshi...