Shivshankar Menon News

Former NSA Shivshankar Menon said it was Pakistan and not Afghanistan that India should worry about. 

China has reportedly deployed advanced fighter jets and troops on the Indian border  

China's political goal was to "split" India and Bhutan over the Doklam standoff, former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon said on Wednesday.

He said when it comes to resolving an issue, there is no point in drawing lessons from the world or assuming things as it is not a “mind-reading exercise”.

After the occupation of Aksai Chin area in the 1962 war, China's stand reported to have changed.

Shivshankar Menon emphasised that expectations in India on any improved relations with Pakistan are "very very low" particularly after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Former Foreign Security Shivshankar Menon has claimed that a proposal to attack Lashkar-e-Toiba's headquarters in Muridke in Pakistan’s Punjab province, or their camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir was made before the Congress-led UPA government in 2008.

Noting that terrorists have easier and cheaper ways of wreaking havoc, Menon said the nuclear weapons are complex devises that are difficult to manage, use and deliver and require very high level of skills.

Former national security advisor Shivshankar Menon stressed that in the last 30 years when Pakistan has thrown cross-border terrorism in all its worst form, India has done its best in this period.

Former Indian National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon on Wednesday said outside powers seem to be equating with the legitimate government of Afghanistan with insurgent groups like the Taliban, which is creating more instability in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, and it is Afghanistan and the region as a whole that pay the price of that intervention.