Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee delivered a blunt message to Pakistan that terrorism and dialogue do not go together, India has said that it was not ‘Upping the ante’ in its relationship with Islamabad. India was only setting the benchmark which Islamabad has to meet for a bilateral dialogue, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh told reporters in New York last night. “We refuse to accept jihad (holy war) as an instrument of foreign policy. If it is ever accepted, we will be advocating global anarchy,” He said answering a volley of questions on the prime minister's hard-hitting speech at the UN Millennium Summit.
Rejecting Pakistan's stand that Kashmir was the core issue between the two countries, Jaswant Singh said, Kashmir is at the core of Indian nationhood. Asked if the Indian government was in touch with certain influential Kashmirs in the US for a way out of the situation in the state, Jaswant Singh replied in the negative. The government was in touch with the Hurriyat Conference in Kashmir, he said.

Bureau Report