In 1994, under a Congress government, then Leader of the Opposition Atal Bihari Vajpayee led an official delegation to Geneva and successfully blocked Pakistan’s attempts to get a UNHCR resolution passed censuring India on the Kashmir issue. Upon Vajpayee’s return, a photo of him hugging Salman Khurshid, then the Minister of State, External Affairs, captured the moment of bipartisan unanimity. Khurshid, who held the portfolio again from October 2012 to May 2014 under the UPA government, and is now a member of the Congress Working Committee, speaks to The Indian Express on the Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor, the ceasefire,…