Indian Foreign Minister is going to Pakistan for two days on 15 and 16 October to attend the SCO meeting. India's Foreign Minister is going to Pakistan after 9 years. When to harvest them. When asked about the visit, he clarified that the SCO meeting is a multilateral event and I am not going there to discuss relations between India and Pakistan.
I am going there as a representative of a member of SCO. Speaking at the Sardar Patel Lecture on Information Management by IC Center for Governance, External Affairs Minister Jaishankar praised Sardar Patel's policy towards Pakistan. Sardar Patel was against going to the United Nations on the Kashmir issue. He had also opposed it in Junagadh and Hyderabad cases. He was very clear on one thing that India should not leave its issues to other institutions. It is a pity for us that we did not heed their caution and warning. The question of Jammu and Kashmir was then transformed into a question between India and Pakistan. This issue had to be resolved directly with Pakistan.
Like any other neighbour, India wants good relations with Pakistan but not at the cost of border terrorism. Sardar Patel believed that realism should be the basis of our policy.