India at the Commonwealth foreign ministers’ meeting described Pakistan as a 'globally acknowledged promoter of state-sponsored terrorism' masquerading as a victim. It dismissed Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s comments on Kashmir as a subject that was India’s 'internal matter'. While the commentary is not new, the clear signal to Islamabad is that it has no locus standi on Kashmir and is, in fact, in illegal occupation of PoK. In sharp words, Vikas Swarup, secretary in MEA, slammed Qureshi for raising the Kashmir issue, sarcastically observing that his reference to a south Asian nation that committed atrocities against its religious minorities seemed to best describe Pakistan — a country 'that brought genocide to South Asia 49 years back when it killed its own people (in erstwhile east Pakistan)'. Later, foreign minister S Jaishankar used the Asia Society platform to state, 'terrorism from Pakistan remains publicly acknowledged by their government as a policy that they are justifying. So it makes it very hard to conduct normal relations with them'.