 "'Can't just walk across and kill': In US, Tharoor says Pak will have to 'pay a price' for terrorism")
Leading the all-party delegation putting forward India’s case in the American continents, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that New Delhi’s message to Pakistan is that no one would be allowed to believe they could “just walk across the border and kill Indian citizens with impunity”. The remarks from the Indian parliamentarian came during an interactive session hosted by the Consulate General of India in New York for a select group of people.
Tharoor is leading the delegation of Indian MPs to Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and the United States. The all-party delegations are taking on the world as a part of the diplomatic outreach efforts launched by the Union Government to dismantle Pakistan’s false propaganda and emphasise the country’s links to terrorism in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.
During their visits, the Indian parliamentarians are also defending the country’s Operation Sindoor , a mission undertaken by the Indian forces following the terror attack in Kashmir on April 22. During his address, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram detailed the events leading to Operation Sindoor, insisting that India’s message to Pakistan had been clear: “We didn’t want to start anything.”
“We were just sending a message to terrorists. You started, we replied. If you stop, we stop. And they stopped. There was an 88-hour war. We look back on that with a great deal of frustration because it needn’t have happened at all. Lives have been lost. But at the same time, we look back on this experience with a steely and renewed sense of determination,” he added.
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In his speech, Tharoor laid out the new norm in the dynamics between India and Pakistan. “There is now going to be a new norm. No one sitting in Pakistan is going to be allowed to believe that they can just walk across the border and kill our citizens with impunity. There will be a price to pay, and that price has been going up systematically,” Tharoor said.
The Congress MP emphasised that India has different areas of focus from those of its neighbouring nations. “Our focus for some years now has been on being the world’s fastest growing free markets democracy, attempting to focus on the development of our economy, our high emphasis on technology and technological growth and pulling large numbers of people from below the poverty line not just into the 21st Century, but into the world and the opportunities the 21st-century offers,” he explained.
The delegation led by Tharoor includes Sarfaraz Ahmad (JMM), Ganti Harish Madhur Balayogi (TDP), Shashank Mani Tripathi (BJP), Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena), Tejasvi Surya (BJP), and India’s former Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Sandhu. The team reached New York on Saturday and will head to Guyana from here. It will return to the United States on June 3.
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