External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar slammed the West’s hypocrisy on Kashmir and Taliban at Raisina Dialogue 2025.
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00:00We have seen in our own neighborhood, you don't have to be a big country to be a risky
00:04country.
00:05I have some smaller neighbors who have done a pretty good job at that.
00:10That's Foreign Minister S.J.
00:12Shankar at the Raisina Dialogue 2025.
00:14He called out the West's double standards on Kashmir, stating that an invasion had been
00:18reframed as a dispute.
00:20He also stressed the need for a strong and fair United Nations.
00:23After the Second World War, the longest standing illegal, I would say, presence, occupation
00:37of a territory by another country pertains to India.
00:41What we saw in Kashmir.
00:43Now we went to the UN.
00:45What was an invasion was made into a dispute.
00:49So the attacker and the victim were put on par.
00:54Take Afghanistan.
00:56So the same Afghanistan, the same Taliban, which was an outlier, was welcomed in the
01:02Doha process, was welcomed in Oslo.
01:04Apparently, at that time, people were OK with it.
01:08Today, again, we're going back saying, you know, Taliban is doing all these not so good
01:13things.
01:14Now, if they were doing all of that, what was discussed in Oslo and Doha, you know,
01:20you had a British general who described them at that time as, you know, well, they're country
01:28boys with their own honor code.
01:31Now, so when it suits you to deal with the Taliban, they're OK.
01:35When it is not, they're not OK.
01:38You are an extremist today, you wear a suit and tie, you are OK.
01:42You know, I think I have a problem with that.