New Delhi. India’s Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has expressed his intentions to Pakistan by giving a very clear answer to a question asked regarding India’s foreign and neighboring policy during a program at IIT Madras. The External Affairs Minister said that your neighbors can be bad, unfortunately, so are ours. Just look at our neighbor to the west. If a country continues to support terrorism knowingly, persistently and without remorse, we have the right to protect our people from terrorism. We will exercise that right and how we exercise that right is up to us.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar inaugurates the IIT Madras Festival Fortnight (a convergence of Open House, Shaastra, and Saarang) and the IIT Madras Global Research Foundation
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— IANS (@ians_india) January 2, 2026
Jaishankar further said that no one can tell us what we should do and what we should not do. We will do whatever it takes to protect ourselves. Talking on the Indus Water Treaty, he said that many years ago, we had agreed on water sharing arrangement, but if terrorism continues for decades, then good neighborliness ceases to exist. If there are no good relations, then there is no benefit of being a good neighbor. You cannot say, please share water with me but I will continue terrorism with you, this is absolutely not acceptable.
“If a country decides that it will deliberately, persistently, and unrepentantly continue with terrorism, pic.twitter.com/JbXx0R61bg
— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) January 2, 2026
In response to another question, the Foreign Minister said that when we use the word ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, what is the actual message of that word? What that word means is that we never considered the world to be an enemy or a dangerous environment from which we had to protect ourselves. If you’re in problem-solving mode with limited resources, how do you make the most impact? This is actually the problem that needs to be solved. That is what we try to do today in Indian foreign policy, in Indian diplomacy, and we do it by using our competitiveness, by using our strengths, by taking advantage of other institutions and possibilities.
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