Self-virtuous Trump regime has been shown a right place.
You almost think and behave like Pakistan ....
"They (US and Pakistan) have a history with each other. And they have a history of overlooking their history. It is the same military that went into Abbottabad (in Pakistan) and found who (Bin Laden) there?" External Affairs Minister Dr Jaishankar said in reply to a question about the growing cosiness between the US and Pakistan.
Overlooking history: Jaishankar's dig at US, Pak; gives reminder on Osama bin Laden
"I know what my strengths are, I know what is the importance and relevance of my relationship. So that's what guides me," Dr Jaishankar said.
Speaking at 'The Economic Times World Leaders Forum' Jaishankar was referring to the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the 9/11 terror attacks, and said the military that Trump is trusting now was the one who sheltered the terrorist deep inside their house.
To the surprise of many in July Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir was invited to Washington for a meeting with Trump breaking protocols.
It marked a rare instance where a country's military chief was exclusively invited by a sitting US President. This was the first such meeting between a high-ranking Pakistani military chief and a sitting US President.
The US gesture to the top-ranked Pakistani military official came after Pakistan's call for Donald Trump to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, as Munir credited the US president with preventing what could have spiralled into a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
"The issue is, when countries are very focussed on doing the politics of convenience, they keep trying to do such things.
Obviously, I respond to the situation or the challenge of the day, but I also do so, always keeping in mind the larger structural strengths of the relationship, the confidence that comes from it. So, I take it in that spirit," Jaishankar added.
Trump sought to warm Pakistan's back after India denied any mediation by any world leader in reaching a ceasefire agreement with Pakistan in the Operation Sindoor aftermath.
America's ties with India have taken a downturn in recent months also because of the ongoing tariff war between the two nations.
At the same event, Jaishankar criticised the US for singling out India over its energy relations with Russia, asking why the same standards were not applied to China or the European Union, which rank among the biggest importers of Russian crude oil and LNG, respectively.
While US tariffs on China remain paused for 90 days, Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on Indian imports to the US and an extra 25 per cent levy for buying Russian oil, further straining bilateral ties between the world's oldest and the largest democracies.
The External Affairs minister pointed out that every country talks to each other when a conflict occurs.
"It is a fact that phone calls were made at the time. Calls were made by the US and other countries as well. This is not a secret.
Almost every phone call I had, definitely every American phone call I had, is there on my X account. So, when something like this happens, countries do call up... I mean, after all, don't I call up?
I mean, when Israel-Iran was happening, I called up. When Russia-Ukraine was happening, I called up," he pointed out.
"So, in today's international relations, because it is an interdependent world and those who have a stronger history of international relations will do that.
But that is one thing.
It is something quite different to assert mediation or to assert that an outcome which was negotiated between India and Pakistan was not negotiated between India and Pakistan. It was," the Minister virtually snubbed Trump.
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