Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is leading a delegation of Indian MPs in Guyana, Panama, Columbia, Brazil and America, has said that after the Pahalgam attacks, a new criteria is now going to be made that no person sitting in Pakistan will be allowed to accept that they can cross the border and kill Indian citizens without any punishment. He insisted that “the price will have to be paid for this.”
The multilateral delegation from various countries will emphasize that the recent struggle with Pakistan began due to the Pahalgam terror attack, not due to Operation Sindoor, as Islamabad has accused. Terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir was targeted in the counter -operation Sindoor launched by India.
In a conversation organized by the Indian-American community in New York on Saturday with the Indian-American community and selected persons of major media and think tanks, Tharoor said that India’s message is clear for Pakistan: “We didn’t want to start anything”.
He said, “We were sending only one message to the terrorists. You started, we replied. If you stop, we will stay. And they stopped. They stopped. War for 88 hours.
Tharoor said, “Now a new criteria should be created. No person sitting in Pakistan will be allowed to accept that they can go across the border and kill our citizens without any punishment. Its price will have to be paid and this price is increasing systematically.”
He said that India has focused on a very different approach with some of its neighbors.
He said, “For the last few years, our focus has been on becoming the fastest developing free market democracy in the world, we are trying to focus on the development of our economy, we are giving more emphasis on technology and technological development and want to bring out a large number of people from the poverty line not only, but also want to pay attention to the opportunities presented by the world and the 21st century.,
Tharoor spoke in detail about the horrific attack on April 22 in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 26 citizens including a Nepali citizen, which was taken responsibility by The Resistance Front and later retracted it.
He highlighted the cowardly manner in which tourists were targeted on the basis of their religion and retaliated by India through Operation Sindoor, which targeted the terrorist structure in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir through accurate attacks. He also listed various terrorist attacks in India by Pakistani terrorist organizations, from 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to Uri and Pulwama attacks.
The Tharoor -led delegation included Sarfaraz Ahmed (JMM), Ganapati Harish Madhur Balayogi (TDP), Shashank Mani Tripathi (BJP), Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena), Tejashwi Surya (BJP) and former India Ambassador to America Taranjit Sandhu.
The delegation reached New York on Saturday and will go to Guyana from here. It will return to America on 3 June. Tharoor emphasized that India “is not interested in it, and we are still completely clear that we are not interested in war with Pakistan.”
He said, “We would like to be alone to increase our economy and send our people to the 21st century world. We do not want anything that Pakistanis have. Sadly that we can be a status quo power. They are not. They are a revisionist power. They have a longing for the controlled area of India, and they want to achieve it at any cost.”
He said, “And if they cannot get it in traditional ways, they are ready to get it through terrorism. It is not acceptable to us, and this is the message that we are here to give to all of you in this country and other places.”
Tharoor said that India “is now firm on the fact that a new conclusion should be drawn in this matter.” He said that in the last few years, India has made every effort ranging from giving international dosier, complaining to the restriction committee, diplomacy.
He said, “Everything has been tried. Pakistan has been denying. No fault has been proved on the terrorists, no lawsuit was prosecuted in that country, no attempt was made to destroy the terrorist structure and the presence of safe shelters continued there. So from our perspective, this is. You will do so, you will get it back, you will get it back. And we have exhibited it with this operation that we have exhibited with this operation and we have exhibited it with an extent that we will do it. We can, which we hope that the world will understand.
Shashi Tharoor said, “We have the right to self -defense. We have exercised that right. We have not done this in an irresponsible way … This is the message that I wanted to give to all of you today.”
Tharoor said, “I don’t work for the government, as you know, I work for an opposition party.”
He further said that he wrote an article within a few days of the Pahalgam attack, which said that “The time has come to attack vigorously and wisely. And I am happy to say that India did it at all.”
He said that “India has given a clear message” that it would not tolerate terrorism and answer it.
He said, “But at the same time, by calculating it very accurately, by attacking very special goals, the message was also being given that it was not the beginning of a long-term war, but it was only a vengeance action, and we were ready to stop that action.”
