{"id":71547,"date":"2019-10-01T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=71547"},"modified":"2019-10-01T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T11:40:10","slug":"jaishankar-questions-bids-to-hyphenate-india-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/jaishankar-questions-bids-to-hyphenate-india-with-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaishankar questions bids to \u2018hyphenate\u2019 India with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Questioning bids to \u201chyphenate\u201d India with Pakistan following nullification of Article 370, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said it is being done by those who are obsessed with the post-August 5 developments in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou are really being very semantic about it. How do you hyphenate a country, which is one-eighth of your economic size\u2026which is \u2018reputed\u2019 to be your exact opposite?\u201d Jaishankar told a group of Indian reporters, virtually taking exceptions to India and Pakistan being talked of in the same breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The External Affairs Minister was responding to a query about India and Pakistan being \u201chyphenated\u201d once again following abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special status after nullification of Article 370 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By that logic then, India should not do anything which would bring Pakistan into the conversation at all, he said.\u201cSo, let\u2019s not talk Afghanistan. In fact, let\u2019s not talk South Asia. So, my sense is people are over-obsessed about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questioning bids to \u201chyphenate\u201d India with Pakistan following nullification of Article 370, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said it is being done by those who are obsessed with the post-August 5 developments in Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cYou are really being very semantic about it. How do you hyphenate a country, which is one-eighth [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71549,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71547\/revisions\/71549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}