Don’t want hyphen between India and Pakistan, talk to us separately: Salman Khurshid in Indonesia

Former Minister of External Affairs and Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Friday (May 30) said that we (India) cannot reduce ourselves to the ‘size’ and ‘stature’ of Pakistan as we don’t want a hyphen between India and Pakistan. In an interaction with the Indian community, Khurshid said, “We are asked, why did we stop?… We are not Pakistan; we are much larger than they are. We have a greater role in the world… We got respect not only for our strength, but also for showing confidence in our strength. We had to do certain things to teach Pakistan a lesson, and then we stopped because we are not greedy for Pakistan, their territory, or to destroy them.”