Washington DC [USA], Oct 2 (ANI): The prospect of development in Jammu and Kashmir is a direct threat to what Pakistan planned for the region from the past 70 years, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday while expressing hope that the situation in the region in the future would emulate that in North East region today."If we actually manage to get the development going in Kashmir, do understand that everything that the Pakistanis have planned for the last 70 years comes to naught. Therefore, that is something they would never let happen easily," Jaishankar said.The Minister's comments came during a conversation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. Responding to a question on how India would address the challenges before it on the Kashmir situation, Jaishankar said, "India has experienced such challenges in its own north-east regions. Today you see northeast is largely peaceful. People are employed in gainful livelihood and not in throwing stones at security forces. The development card has actually worked in the northeast."Jaishankar said that the revocation of Article 370 of the constitution was a necessity in view of the "less economic activity" and security challenges in the region."The result of the (special status to Kashmir) was that you had less economic activity than the rest of India, you had a state which was socially, increasingly less aligned with the rest of the country. I mean pretty much every progressive legislation in the country over the last 20 years did not get to be enacted and applied in Kashmir," he said.He said that the "reactions" to the move on Kashmir were expected in light of the fact that "there are western interests built over 70 years: the local western interests, and the western interests across the border."The minister said that the restrictions imposed in the region are taken as precautions to ensureitting right now with some pain," he told the magazine."If I don't exercise-which, being English, is not in my blood to want to do that-I kind of go, 'Do I have to?' But everybody gets that, don't they? We're going to start talking about our ailments. 'Did I ever tell you about my surgery?' No fault of Tom's, by the way-he couldn't hear in that mask," he added.On the work front, Bale and Damon are co-starring in the film 'Le Mans 66'. In the movie, Damon plays American car designer Carroll Shelby and Bale plays British driver Ken Miles. The two build a race car for the Ford Motor Company and challenge the racing vehicles of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours Le Mans in France in 1966. (ANI)

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