“G7 can’t be successful without India…”, KP Fabian praises PM Carney’s invitation to PM Modi

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New Delhi, June 07, 2025 (ANI): Foreign affairs expert, KP Fabian praised Canadian PM Mark Carney’s invitation to PM Modi for G7 summit. He said that G7 Summit cannot be successful without the presence of India on the table.

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00:00Well, Operation Sindhur, naturally, was a great success.

00:06But at the same time, we have to look at it analytically.

00:12A strong and clear message was sent to Pakistan.

00:17But you know, in life, if A sends a message to B,

00:21the message received is not the same as the message that was sent.

00:25So what has happened in Pakistan is that General Munir and the military,

00:33who were under considerable criticism in Pakistan

00:39for what happened in Belichistan and elsewhere.

00:44Now Munir has been reinstated in public esteem in a big way.

00:52Secondly, if you ask whether there will be further such terrorist attack from Pakistan,

01:03well, nobody knows.

01:06But at the same time, I would say it is difficult to say that there shall never be a repetition,

01:15despite India's having made it clear that any such terrorist attack will be an act of war,

01:23because that is how the things are.

01:26So Operation Sindhur was a great success, but it is my belief, I could be wrong,

01:34that we should now, apart from looking at these things militaristically,

01:43we should see whether we can make good use of diplomacy,

01:50which also is India's great strength.

01:55In a diplomatic outreach towards mending bilateral ties,

02:00after a year and a half of acumeny and hostility,

02:03Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday

02:06has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 summit on June 15-17.

02:12Well, Prime Minister Mark Carney has done the right thing.

02:17Well, people might say there was a slight delay, but I do not wish to go into it.

02:22But the basic point is that there cannot be a G7 meeting,

02:33which is effective in having conversations about what's happening to the global economy,

02:43what is happening in regard to security, what's happening in regard to war and peace,

02:51and also about what is happening with terrorism and the measures we need to take

02:59for counter-terrorism without India's presence.

03:03So I take it that Prime Minister Modi will raise the issue of terrorism,

03:08apart from other issues, climate change, everything will be raised,

03:11but they should be more focused on terrorism.

03:14And even after Pahalgam, we should recognize that the rest of the world,

03:22especially the West, has not really stopped, have not really woken up.

03:31Chief Advisor of the Interim Government, Muhammad Yunus,

03:34has announced election in April 2026.

03:39Says Bangladesh is in a state of war.

03:42In a state of, what shall I say, destabilization.

03:48In the sense that the government of, led by Yunus, is not in full control.

03:55No government is ever in full control, but it's not even in reasonable control.

04:00At the same time, he was planning to have the election much later,

04:03and he was even refusing to give a date.

04:06So, most probably, the Bangladesh National Party and others,

04:11who have been asking for early election, will accept this.

04:15And as things stand, the BNP will come back to power.

04:21But Jamaat-e-Islami might make substantial gains.

04:26Pakistan writes again, offers to renew talks on in this water treaty.

04:32India is not ready to engage yet.

04:34Well, as I have been saying all along,

04:38ideally Pakistan should take the decision to abandon the use of terrorism

04:45as part of its foreign policy, state policy,

04:49dismantle the camps, infrastructure,

04:54and bring to justice those who are sort of running these camps,

04:59and invite India, and maybe the international community also,

05:04to come and check.

05:06Now, if Pakistan moves in this direction, in a credible way,

05:11even before the end of the road,

05:14in my view, India should suspend its abeyance of the India's Water Treaty.

05:21And there are more reasons.

05:23We all know that, vis-à-vis Pakistan, India is an upper riparian state.

05:29But vis-à-vis China, India is a lower riparian state.

05:34And the Chinese are quite capable of telling us,

05:38tomorrow day after,

05:40well, this is how you treat, as an upper riparian state,

05:45the lower riparian state, what ground have you to talk?

05:49So, India has to be careful.

05:52And Pakistan can also take us to the ICJ.

05:55So, it's better to, as I said earlier, once again,

05:59it is better to go back to classical diplomacy.

06:03Lastly, sir, U.S. lawmaker tells Pakistan delegation

06:07to eliminate wild terror group like Jaish-e-Mohammad.

06:10They also told Pakistan delegation that the protection of religious minorities

06:14in Pakistan remains an important issue.

06:16Yes.

06:17It is glad that the U.S. lawmakers have done that.

06:24But at the same time, you know,

06:28it is one thing to make public pronouncements.

06:31If you tell me to do something in public,

06:34but if you do not follow it up with some action,

06:39in the case of Pakistan,

06:42well, you know that the IMF loan they got.

06:45Why?

06:46Mainly because of United States and other things.

06:51So, such public statements are welcome,

06:54but they should be followed up with some concrete action,

06:59which we are waiting for.

07:00which we are waiting for.

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