‘Disengaging Pak post 26/11 an error’

NEW DELHI: The government has admitted that its policy of not engaging with Pakistan – post 26/11 – may have been wrong. Outgoing Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said this in a TV programme.
Nirupama Rao said: “I think you have to look at policy making in a dynamic way. I don’t think you are making a policy in a laboratory. You take into account the surrounding environment, you take into account a success approach or not. Did that approach yield too many dividence? Well you have to make assessment of that. I think the decision to re-engage with Pakistan and to talk about the issues that divide us, that created a gulf between us, that reduce the trust deficit as the two Prime Ministers said. I think it is a very realistic approach in dealing problems with Pakistan”.