I'm John Bachelor with his senior

county, former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States.

And Bill Rajal, a Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracy keeps a long war journal.

Mr Ambassador, this struck me as odd.

India will enter Pakistan to kill terrorists who run away, says the defense minister of India

Rajas Singh there's an election underway as I understand it

Norengramodi running for his third consecutive term is extremely confident

and popular Congress Party is challenging him but not very

coherently and yet this statement about entering Pakistan no permission is mentioned.

Is this something is this a break with policy right now?

No, it isn't actually. There have been some assassinations that both

Pakistani intelligence and the international intelligence community believe were organized by Indian intelligence.

And these have taken place inside Pakistan and And we've already seen the Guardian story

about how there is Indian intelligence officers

off the record admitted that yes, they were doing it it so I think that's what the Indian

Defence Minister is referring to look we must understand that Pakistan is now an issue

in Indian politics which it wasn't say 20 years ago.

People have very negative feelings towards Pakistan.

They hold it responsible for terrorist attacks inside India which Pakistan has been

responsible for and so as a result it's a vote-getter and in the last election similar words were said by Prime Minister Modi who said we will go into their home and kick there, you know what.

And this time the defense minister is saying it.

As far as policy is concerned, I think that targeted

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