Competency of Foreign and Trade Ministers

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I recently came across a video snippet which is below (please disregard the clickbait headline). As much as I disagree with policy and political outlooks of the Indian govt, I cannot help but give credit for the general competency, articulateness, and higher levels of SME from the Indian ministers. I felt this way about their foreign minister Jaishankar before and their trade minister also seems similar. Even the Bangladeshis have a Nobel prize economist as a leader.

For the leader but at least for important ministers why doesn't Pakistan have such similar caliber ministers representing them? Mind you I don't want to compare with OECD countries and hence the direct comparison with India. Arguably speaking, India is also a developing country, has high levels of corruption and nepotism, and a bureaucratic set up. So why isn't Pakistan able to have such competent ministers at least for critical portfolios when representing them?

 

[JaDed]

Because India has IAS officers and many technocrats. 7-10 States In India are extremely education oriented.. while the education is still very theoretical but helps develop the brain with more exposure.(long way to go)

Indian startup scene has been best since my lifetime, so everything is better overall thanks to economy.

Our issues of civic sense, municipal infrastructure still remain but hopeful to see changes like those happening in Hyderabad Pune

If India was just Panjab Bihar Rajasthan and UP we will have similar issues too.

Eg: Brampton eventhough it’s in a developed country its absolutely terrible.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Can you explain what Jaishankar has achieved as a foreign minister?

Every ally has been lost, every relationship strained, and India has weak leverage in every regional body.

Indian propped up regimes have been booted out of countries, Indian diplomacy only swayed the Taliban post Pahalgam and regional countries overwhelmingly support Pakistan in the recent conflict.

Major superpowers have kept India at arms length, and they have prostituted themselves for Putins oil to make 3-4 billionaires rich.

Are we meant to impressed by such failure because he speaks well? Is he the Shan Masood of politics?

 

[IronShield]

Can you explain what Jaishankar has achieved as a foreign minister?

Every ally has been lost, every relationship strained, and India has weak leverage in every regional body.

Indian propped up regimes have been booted out of countries, Indian diplomacy only swayed the Taliban post Pahalgam and regional countries overwhelmingly support Pakistan in the recent conflict.

Major superpowers have kept India at arms length, and they have prostituted themselves for Putins oil to make 3-4 billionaires rich.

Are we meant to impressed by such failure because he speaks well? Is he the Shan Masood of politics?

To add, India has just been booted out from an airbases in Tajikistan they had been using for almost 20 years. The humiliation in 2025 is ongoing, so much for "educated" ministers.

 

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Can you explain what Jaishankar has achieved as a foreign minister?

Every ally has been lost, every relationship strained, and India has weak leverage in every regional body.

Indian propped up regimes have been booted out of countries, Indian diplomacy only swayed the Taliban post Pahalgam and regional countries overwhelmingly support Pakistan in the recent conflict.

Major superpowers have kept India at arms length, and they have prostituted themselves for Putins oil to make 3-4 billionaires rich.

Are we meant to impressed by such failure because he speaks well? Is he the Shan Masood of politics?

Great points here.

 

[JaDed]

Can you explain what Jaishankar has achieved as a foreign minister?

Every ally has been lost, every relationship strained, and India has weak leverage in every regional body.

Indian propped up regimes have been booted out of countries, Indian diplomacy only swayed the Taliban post Pahalgam and regional countries overwhelmingly support Pakistan in the recent conflict.

Major superpowers have kept India at arms length, and they have prostituted themselves for Putins oil to make 3-4 billionaires rich.

Are we meant to impressed by such failure because he speaks well? Is he the Shan Masood of politics?

On the oil that’s not true, India’s inflation was extremely controlled after Pandemic compared to Pakistan due to oil, it could had been better yes.

India doesn’t have leverage and that’s honestly fine , the leverage Pakistan has in the opinion of Pak posters the results will be visible in 8-10 years..

Honestly a lot of such things were said in 2015-2017 about India economy demonetisation on this forum as well..overall it hasn’t been close to that bad and demonetisation worked in causing massive wave of digital literacy in India.

I understand that Pak posters won’t agree on Indian technocrats being good, but they have given India some stability since 1991