Nagrota attack as shameful as 26/11: Chidambaram
Nagrota attack as shameful as 26/11: Chidambaram
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"I think the practice of having a Home Minister, home secretary, the special secretary, the DIB, the director RAW and NSA meet every day was a good practice. The practice has stopped. That is why there is no coherence, no coordination, no unified command at the level of home affairs," he said.

"The first extreme was over-enthusiasm and the second is their own making. Eventually you have to live with your neighbours. The only answer is to engage Pakistan through trade, cultural exchanges or people to people exchanges," he said.

"Our capacity to respond was extremely poor. It took us three to four days to clear three to four terrorists holed up in a hotel. Retaliation was not an option. Neither desirable nor feasible at that point of time.

"India gained enormously by not retaliating. By the time the UPA stepped down, Pakistan had been virtually isolated... What we now witness are daring attacks on Army camps... One must measure the efficacy of a policy by its outcomes. The ceasefire along the LoC did produce an outcome," Chidambaram said.

About the deteriorating security situation in Kashmir, he said his government's policies brought several years of "relative peace and tranquillity" in the Valley, but "all that lie shattered today".

"Origin of this decline is the completely unethical, unacceptable coalition between two parties that were bitterly opposed to each other. That is the greatest provocation in the Valley. As long as that unethical combination remains, I can't see any way forward in Kashmir," he said

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