Hours after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that Pakistan vacating Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) would resolve the Kashmir issue in its entirety, India on Tuesday asked the Netherlands not to equip the Pakistani military with weapons and systems or share advanced technologies with that country as India has been battling Pakistan-sponsored terrorism for years.
The matter was reportedly raised by defence minister Rajnath Singh during a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Ruben Brekelmans in Delhi.
Singh, reportedly, told the visiting minister that arming Pakistan was detrimental to regional security and countries friendly to India must not support a known sponsor of terrorism, the people said, asking not to be named.
The Netherlands and Pakistan are known to collaborate in the naval domain, and Amsterdam has supplied second-hand minehunters, and offshore patrol vessels to Islamabad.
Singh wrote on X about deepening defence ties with the Netherlands
“Delighted to meet the young and dynamic Defence Minister of Netherlands, Mr. Ruben Brekelmans in New Delhi. We reviewed the full range of India-Netherlands defence cooperation. We look forward to further deepen and elevate our defence partnership. The areas of our discussion included defence, cyber security, Indo-Pacific and emerging technologies like AI.”
Similarly, on Monday Singh flagged India’s concerns about the activities of US-based secessionist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), which has called for the creation of Khalistan, and its links with Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence to create trouble in Punjab, during talks with US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
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