We are a huge country, with different linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds. Despite our difficulties, we have held together, and that too d… - Inder Kumar Gujral

...some parts of India were subject to militancy sponsored from across the border. The problems are in the northeast and the in north, it affects Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. I do not know for what reason previous central governments had decided that all the expenses incurred in fighting terrorism be debited to the state governments. This is wrong. Because wherever terrorism strikes, it destabilises the whole of India. It is an attack on India. I had promised that whatever expenses are incurred will be taken care of by the central government.

In my 10 months as prime minister, I made seven trips to Kashmir. Militancy reduced greatly during the UF rule.

It fell to my lot to orient our foreign policy during the period of bewilderingly rapid changes wherein one kind of world was ushered out and another kind was ushered in.