A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave an interview asking who should he speak to in Pakistan, the elected government or the military, former Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar hit back saying, in India too the military calls the shots as much as they do in Pakistan.
She revealed how when she was the foreign minister, both countries had almost clinched a deal on de-militarising the Siachen Glacier as per then prime minister Manmohan Singh’s call to turn Siachen into a ‘mountain of peace’. But it was the Indian Army that scuttled the deal at the very last minute.
It would be "unrealistic to expect Pakistan to be in a loving embrace with India when India uses every global forum to defame Pakistan and show it as the global fountainhead of all terrorism," she added.
"We have been doing this for the last 60 years, teaching our kids how to hate the other both in India and Pakistan and it has not worked. In both our countries we seem to think all our ills are because of the other. We need to come out of this narrow mentality," she said.
She also commented on the recent NSG fiasco by saying it cannot be seen from the narrow prism of Indo-Pak ties and instead India should address the principled concerns of many countries that raised objections in the Seoul Plenary.
Khar was the youngest and first woman Foreign Minister of Pakistan from February 2011 to march 2013 under the previous PPP government.
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