To Pakistani friends:
If it makes you feel better, please think that his statements were directed at people like me. I have lived in Mumbai for over a decade - Leopolds is a place I often visit - in fact, I had taken my team for a beer there exactly a week before 26/11, and I used to frequent Taj and Oberoi a lot. The 26/11 attack carried out by some Pakistanis with support from some sections of Pakistani establishment have coloured views of people like me. It is very difficult to have warm, fuzzy feelings for a nation responsible for such brutality. So he was just trying to assure narrow minded people like me that people such as Hafiz Sayed and Ajmal Kasab don't enjoy widespread public sympathy in Pakistan, they don't operate openly in Pakistan and they don't get large sums of money in public fund-gathering and officials such as Sartaj Aziz are joking when they talk about good terrorists/bad terrorists.
Having said that, let me also add that when I first read about the Peshawar school attack around 2 PM on that horrible day, the only sensation I had was a terrible emptiness in my heart - the tragedy was so severe that I couldn't even begin to express it. Kids in school uniforms - that's the closest we will ever come to complete innocence. I know it doesn't help, but the only emotion I could bring up was complete, unquestioned sympathy. Yet, I have seen enough Pakistanis on online forums including this one (I have been lurking for several years, registered only recently to comment) at that time and afterwards, either gloating about 26/11 ("a dozen of our boys brought your city to a standstill")or trying to pin it as a 'false flag' - I wonder if someone capable of such hatred is a human being or a monster. All I can say is, if you want respect as a people and a society, you need to earn it.
Rather than make a song and dance about what the Indian HM said, why not create a society/nation that nobody in their right mind would link to terror - after all, the Indian HM didn't say "Not all Swedes are terrorists" or "Not all French are terrorists" - he would be laughed off.