Terrorism is an open business in Pakistan: Jaishankar

TERRORISM is an "open business" in Pakistan that is financed, organised and used by the state and its military, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

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The external affairs minister also said that India and Pakistan were "very, very far away" from a nuclear conflict during their recent clashes.

In an interview to German newspaper FAZ, Jaishankar, in an apparent criticism of the West, said there has been a tendency to link everything in "our part of the world" to a “nuclear problem”.

"Very, very far away. I'm frankly astonished by your question," he said when asked how far away was the world from a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.

“At no point was a nuclear level reached. There is a narrative as if everything that happens in our part of the world leads directly to a nuclear problem. That disturbs me a lot because it encourages terrible activities like terrorism," he said.