Copenhagen/New Delhi, May 23 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, in a rebuff to Western thought that the clash between India and Pakistan was over Kashmir, stated firmly that it was in retaliation for a terrorist attack, in reference to the Pahalgam attack.
In an interview to Politiken, a Danish newspaper, the EAM stated firmly: "It wasn't a conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. It was a terrorist attack," in reference to the April 22 brutal attack by Pakistani linked terrorists in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in which 26 people, mostly tourists, were killed.
On the West's backing of Pakistan over the past decades, he said: "Our borders have been violated by Pakistan in Kashmir ever since our independence in 1947. And ...