"There has been a paradigm shift in the way India has dealt with terrorism and especially terrorism from Pakistan. An example of this is the 2016 surgical strikes and the 2019 air strikes in Balakot, which changed the game and created credible countermeasures against it." Established resistance.

"It made it clear that India would be willing to take proactive action against terrorists, either punitively or preemptively punishing them. This marks a change in that policy," Bisaria said during a panel discussion organized by the Usanas Foundation. " Organization of security matters.

After taking charge as India's High Commissioner to Pakistan in 2017, Bisaria was asked by Islamabad to leave the country in August 2019 following the abrogation of Article 370.His recent book, 'Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan' not only provides an entertaining account of the events that unfolded during that period, but also takes a look at the troubled relations between the two neighboring countries since 1947. Is.

"I have argued (in the book) that, with the benefit of hindsight, India probably should not have used sufficient force in the 1980s, 90s, 2000s and certainly not in the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008, which were a very Deserved strong, hard power.

"I also mentioned that if India had used tools like air strikes and surgical strikes in 2008, we could have established a better deterrent against terrorism," Bisaria told Usanas Foundation Founder and CE Abhinav Pandya. "

The diplomat said the 2016 surgical strikes and 2019 Balakot air strikes were a demonstration of the fact that India was ready to pursue terrorists on its territory."India no longer links its Pakistan and Kashmir policy together. The Pakistani policy with a tough stance on terrorism is an external policy. The Jammu and Kashmir policy, which is giving a therapeutic touch at the moment and focusing on development, is a Pakistan has no say in the internal policy. In the past, Pakistan wanted to propagate that it is a stakeholder of Jammu and Kashmir."

He acknowledged that there were some "positive developments" and a "positive mood" in trying to engage with Pakistan and assessed how the country would differ from the Pakistan of the past after Imran Khan came to power in 2018."But when in 2019, on February 14, the Pulwama attack happened, it changed the entire equation. It confirmed to India that nothing has changed and the Pakistani establishment is not willing to rein in terrorism."

In his book, the veteran diplomat argues that it is Pakistan's own 'identity crisis' that is driving the military establishment towards hostility with India.

He said during the discussion, "Pakistan was never a normal country, defined as a normal neighboring country, whose perhaps every little policy is not determined by the military and the use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy. Doesn't."

However, Bisaria believes that the general public, especially the younger generation, sees rapidly developing India in a very different light."People see India very differently from the way official Pakistan sees it. Sometimes the poison of the official narrative seeps into the popular narrative, but, overall, you will see a lot of latent goodwill for India that I often see on social media now, especially among young Pakistanis, who want to see India in a new light, they want to pit themselves against India, they want to be critical of their country and things like that. Want to appreciate what they see,'' he said.