Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who’s within the United States main an all-party delegation, was requested a query by his son, Ishan, on Thursday about Pakistan’s involvement within the Pahalgam terror assault.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is main an all-party delegation to the US.(File/PTI)

Ishan Tharoor requested whether or not any nation had requested the delegation led by his father for proof of Pakistan’s involvement within the lethal Pahalgam terrorist assault on April 22 that killed 26 folks, largely vacationers. He additionally requested about Pakistan’s constant denial of its involvement within the assault. To this, Tharoor mentioned India wouldn’t have retaliated in the best way it did if there was not convincing proof in opposition to Pakistan.

Responding to his son’s query, Tharoor mentioned, “I’m very glad you raised this. I didn’t plant it, I promise you,” earlier than including that no nation had requested for any such proof.

“Very simply, no one had any doubt, and we were not asked for evidence. But the media have asked in two or three places. Let me say very clearly that India would not have done this without convincing evidence,” Tharoor mentioned.

Shashi Tharoor’s ‘three reasons’

Further elaborating on Pakistan’s involvement in terrorism, Tharoor highlighted the nation’s 37-year sample of terror assaults accompanied by repeated denials. He introduced up the Mumbai assaults in 2008 and Osama Bin Laden’s location close to a military base in Pakistan.

1st motive – Mumbai assaults, Osama Bin Laden’s protected home

“But there were three particular reasons I want to draw your attention to all of you. The first is that we’ve had a 37-year pattern of repeated terror attacks from Pakistan, accompanied by repeated denials. I mean, Americans haven’t forgotten that Pakistan didn’t know, allegedly, where Osama bin Laden was until he was found in a Pakistani safe house right next to an army camp in a cantonment city. That’s Pakistan,” Tharoor mentioned.

“Mumbai attacks- They denied having anything to do with it. One of the terrorists was captured alive. His name, his identity, and his address are in Pakistan. Everything was revealed under interrogation. He told us where he was trained and what was done,” he added.

Tharoor additionally talked concerning the recording of the Pakistani handler giving minute-by-minute directions to the killers in Mumbai, which he mentioned was recorded by each Indian and US intelligence.

“We know what Pakistan’s all about. They will dispatch terrorists. They will deny they did so till they’re truly caught with crimson palms. That’s the primary,” he added.

2nd motive – Resistance Front claimed accountability for Pahalgam assault

Shashi Tharoor highlighted that the Resistance Front (TRF), which he referred to as a “well-known proxy front of the Lashkar-e-Taiba”, claimed accountability for the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault “within 45 minutes or so” of the tragedy.

Tharoor mentioned that the Resistance Front is “a banned organisation listed by the United Nations and the US State Department, which enjoys safe haven in the town of Muridke in Pakistan” and added that India had already introduced proof concerning the Resistance Front and its doings to the UN Committee on Terrorism in December 2023 and once more in 2024. However, since Pakistan was additionally a member of the committee, the UN didn’t listing the Resistance Front, however its id was “known and publicised”, Tharoor added.

India was pursuing the itemizing of TRF within the United Nations by the UN Security Council’s UNCC 1267 sanctions committee.

“The world hadn’t even realized about this (assault) once they claimed credit score, in order that was itself a smoking gun. They repeated that declare 24 hours later, and having repeated that declare 24 hours later, then their handlers should have woken as much as the gravity of this and instructed them to take it off their aspect, in order that they did, however the truth is the credit score declare was on document and the world has seen it,” Tharoor mentioned.

third motive – Funerals performed for terrorists in Pakistan

For his third level, Tharoor highlighted how funerals have been performed for the members of terrorist organisations comparable to Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba after India’s first strike on May 7.

India launched Operation Sindoor in response to the Pahalgam terror assault on May 7 and hit 9 terror bases throughout Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) by means of precision strikes.

“When the first strikes happened on the terrorist camps, funerals were conducted, including for members of key organisations, the Jaish-e-Mohammad and the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The funerals were conducted, and photographs have emerged on social media showing Pakistani generals and police officers in uniform attending these funerals being conducted by relatives of these terrorists. So we’re looking at three concrete pieces of evidence as far as India is concerned”.

With ANI inputs.