China and Pakistan have been close partners for decades, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Wednesday, in response to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack in Parliament on the government’s foreign policy.
Taking to Twitter, Mr. Jaishankar said some “history lessons are in order”, and pointed out that Pakistan had handed over the Shaksgam Valley illegally to China in 1963, and allowed China to build the Karakoram highway through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in the 1970s. He also said China and Pakistan have had close nuclear collaboration for 50 years and also started the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in 2013.
