Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that it is impossible to hold a diplomatic dialogue with India in the current situation, according to a media report on Thursday.

Back in India, New Delhi has already been maintaining that “talk and terror” cannot go hand in hand. It has been asking Islamabad to take concrete steps against terror groups responsible for launching various attacks on India.

“There is no possibility of a backdoor or diplomatic dialogue with India in the prevailing situation...The circumstances are not suitable for any dialogue at the moment,” Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper quoted Qureshi as saying.

According to the paper, Qureshi made the comments while speaking with reporters in his hometown Multan on Wednesday.

India and Pakistan saw their relations being nosedived following a terror attack in the Pathankot Air Force base in 2016 by terror groups based in the neighbouring country. Subsequent attacks, including one on Indian Army camp in Uri, further deteriorated the ties between the two neighbours.

The relationship further went down the drain after India had its war planes conquer a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019. The attack was carried out in response to the Pulwama terror attack, which had resulted in the deaths of 40 CRPF jawans.

Withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir's special powers and bifurcating the state into two union territories in August last year also evoked a strong reaction from Pakistan, which has been unsuccessfully trying to rally international support against India on the Kashmir issue.

India has categorically told the international community that the scrapping of Article 370 was its internal matter. It also advised Pakistan to accept the reality and stop all anti-India propaganda.