Shashi Tharoor slams Pakistan within the United States(ANI)
The Congress MP is main a multi-party Indian delegation to the US at a time when a Pakistani group, headed by former overseas minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, can also be in Washington. Both groups are lobbying international lawmakers and political leaders to help their respective nationwide narratives, particularly following the latest cross-border tensions sparked after the April 22 Pahalgam assault.
Shashi Tharoor responded to the Pakistani delegation’s claims that Islamabad can also be a sufferer of terrorism. Speaking on the Indian embassy in Washington, he mentioned, “This (Pakistan) delegation is going around saying we are also victims of terrorism, we have lost more lives to terrorism than India has. We turn around and say—whose fault is that?”
The Congress chief added, “As Hillary Clinton famously said 10 years ago, ‘You can’t breed vipers in your backyard and expect them to bite only your neighbours.’”
Tharoor added that Pakistan is now struggling by the hands of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a gaggle that broke away from the Taliban. “But who created the Taliban from which the Tehrik-i-Taliban broke off?” he requested.
“We all know the answer to that, so let Pakistan look inside it and let it do some serious interior reflection before it goes around pleading innocence and deniability and everything else,” the Thiruvananthapuram MP added.
‘It is just not India versus Pakistan”
The Pakistani delegation, during its addresses in the US, is promoting Islamabad’s stance on what it calls “Indian aggression”, including that Pakistan can also be a sufferer of terrorism much more than India.
Addressing the Pakistan delegation’s claims, Tharoor mentioned, “We are not there with a message about India versus Pakistan. It’s about India as a democracy facing terror and as a country that has been focused on its own economic development and growth story. Even Kashmir was a story of prosperity and a booming economy.”
He highlighted tourism as an indication of progress in Jammu and Kashmir, saying, “I told the Americans we had more tourists in Kashmir last year than Aspen, Colorado receives. We had a 100 per cent increase in the first three months of this year compared to the first three months of last year.”
Describing the brutal nature of the Pahalgam assault, Tharoor mentioned terrorists are attempting to spark non secular battle. “Why do they go around asking people their religion and shooting them? When one horrified wife screamed, ‘kill me too’, they said go back and tell them. They wanted a communal backlash.”
The Indian delegation’s go to comes within the wake of Operation Sindoor, launched by India on May 7 in response to a lethal terror assault in Pahalgam, which killed 26 civilians.
He additionally dismissed claims that India’s actions are pushed by non secular or communal motives. “When Operation Sindoor was conducted, of the three briefers, two were women and one was a Muslim woman officer. None of our delegations is without at least one Muslim member,” Tharoor said. “This is about terrorism. It’s not about religion, it’s not about communal issues, it’s not about bilateral India.”
India’s Operation Sindoor focused terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, killing over 100 militants linked to teams equivalent to Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Hostilities ended on May 10 after each nations agreed to a ceasefire.
The Indian delegation consists of leaders throughout celebration traces, such because the BJP’s Bhubaneshwar Kalita, Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora, and former Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu. Their US go to follows conferences in Guyana, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil.
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