NEW DELHI: India will engage with Pakistan diplomatically in future but the date and time of any such engagement will be of the Centre\u2019s choosing, foreign secretary S Jaishankar told a parliamentary panel.
\nWhen asked by members if India wants to resume dialogue with its hostile western neighbour from the position of advantage after the surgical strike inside the Pak territory, Jaishankar answered positively.
\n\u201cWe had been engaging with Pakistan and will do so in future. But right now, we don\u2019t have any fixed calendar even for talks at the secretary-level,\u201d he told the panel.
\nJaishankar also claimed that army strikes on militant bases in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir last month had given Islamabad a taste of what India was capable of, sources said.
\nJaishankar said: \u201cPeople-to-people contact would continue and there was no plan to stop it,\u201d the country\u2019s media reported.
\nArmy vice-chief lieutenant general Bipin Rawat — who briefed the panel members — remained non-committal about submitting proof of surgical strikes \u201cOur boys went for a swift, time-bound operation. They were given specific targets but not told to collect evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, we are trying to collate some proof.\u201d The government had previously said that the army had submitted proof of the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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