Era of uninterrupted dialogue with Pakistan over, says Jaishankar

External Affiar Minister S Jaishankar on Friday did some plainspeaking about India's relationship with its neighbour Pakistan.

Speaking at the release of Ambassdor Rajiv Sikri's new book, "Strategic Conundrums: Reshaping India's Foreign Policy", the External Affairs minister said that the era of uninterrupted dialogue with Pakistan is 'over'.

"I think the era of uninterrupted dialogue with Pakistan is over. Actions have consequences. And insofar as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, I think Article 370 is done. So the, the issue today is what kind of relationship can we possibly contemplate with Pakistan? Rajiv [Sikri] suggests [in his book] that perhaps India is content to continue at the current level of relationship. Maybe yes, maybe no... We are not passive. And whether events take a positive or a negative direction, either way, we will react to it," S Jaishankar said.