Watch | 'We've Lost Ability to Be a Model Country in Subcontinent', Shivshankar Menon

In a strongly worded disapproval to the Centre’s recent move to bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR) and possibly a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), former National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon on Friday said that through such moves, India has only achieved “a hyphenated relation with Pakistan as a religiously driven and intolerant state”. Read The Wire‘s reportage of Menon’s statements, issued during a ‘public briefing’ on the CAA-NRC-NPR, here.