Window for dialogue should remain open with Pakistan: Hosabale

Noting that trust in Pakistan’s military and political leadership is completely missing in India, top RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale on Tuesday said that people-to-people contact is the best way to break the deadlock.
“That should be tried more and more now,” he said in an interview to PTI Videos. “This is the one hope I think, because I believe strongly that ultimately the civil society relations (will work). Because we have a cultural relation and we have been one nation,” he said.

“So, that has to be emphasised,” he said. He was asked how India should deal with Pakistan and its continued sponsorship of terrorism.

“See everything has been tried (diplomatically) and Pakistan keeps making pinpricks,” he said, citing terrorist attacks such as 26/11, Pulwama and Pahalgam.

“The security and self-respect of a country have to be protected and the Government of the day should take care of it. But at the same time, we need not close the doors. We should always be ready to engage them in a dialogue,” he said. Trade and commerce, issuance of visas should not stop, because “there should be a window (open) always for a dialogue”, he said.

That’s why diplomatic relations have been maintained, Hosabale added. 

He said academicians, sportspersons, scientists and community leaders should come forward there, as their political leadership and military leadership have developed some aversion to India.