New York:
The deputy for the Shashi Tharoor Congress on Saturday (local time) underlined how India responded in a measured and calibrated manner to the terrorist bases and the seat of Pakistan, after the vile terrorist attack in Pahalgam during which 26 people were killed. He called on the world to come together to fight with united terrorism.
Putting comments to the Indian consulate, Tharoor noted that the visit of the members of the delegation for the September 11 memorial was their first judgment.
He said: “It was obviously a very moving moment for us, but he was also supposed to send a very strong message that we are here in a city that always carries the scars of this wild terrorist attack following another terrorist attack in our own country.”
Mr. Tharoor said: “We both came as a reminder that this is a shared problem, but also a spirit of solidarity with the victims … It is a global problem, it is a scourge and we all have to fight it with united.”
Speaking on the objective of the visit of the delegation of all the parties, Mr. Tharoor said: “Our idea is a lot to speak to a transversal section of public and political opinion in each of the countries to which we are going on recent events which obviously disturb a certain number of people in the world.
“It is therefore for us an opportunity that we will be in all countries, meeting members of the executive, meeting members of the Legislative Assembly, meeting great oil tankers and influential foreign policy experts, and at the same time interacting with the media and public opinion in each of these places.”
Describing Pahalgam’s vile terrorist attack, Tharoor said: “It was a bunch of people who identify the people of the people before them and killing them on this basis, which were clearly intended to provoke a reaction in the rest of India, because the victims were Hindu.”
He gave various examples of Indian society in the way in which politicians in civilians in the Jammu-et-Cachemire, people gathered in solidarity. “There was an extraordinary quantity of conviviality crossing the religious and other divisions that people tried to provoke. The message is very clear that there was a malignant intention … India, unfortunately, had no reason to doubt where it came.”
Describing more details, Mr. Tharoor said: “In an hour of atrocity, a group called the resistance front had claimed the credit. Now, unfortunately, he had acted in 2025, they repeated their complaint the next day.”
“Unfortunately, Pakistan has chosen to follow its usual denial path, in fact, Pakistan using China managed to remove the reference to the TRF of the press release written to the UN Security Council two days later”.
Speaking about India’s response following Pahalgam’s terrorist attack, Mr. Tharoor said: “I don’t work for the government, as you know. I work for an opposition party, but I myself am written an editorial in one of the main papers of India, in a few days saying that the time had come to strike hard and I am happy to say that it is exactly what it is exact did.”
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He explained to what extent the precise and calibrated strikes took place on “9 specific specific known terrorist bases, head offices and winners. Those who included those of the Lashkar-E-Taiba in Muridke, Jaish-e-Mohammad in Bahawalpur, responsible for among other things for the murder of Daniel Pearl …”
Mr. Tharoor pointed out that “India sent a clear message that it was not going to take lying terror, it would respond, but just as well, by providing very well calculated and calculated strikes on very specific targets, he was sending a message that it was not supposed to be the salvo opening in a protected war but just an act of recovery, which we were prepared to stop with this act”.
The All-Party Delegation LED by Mr Tharoor included of Shambhavi Chaudhary (Lok Janshakti Party), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), GM Harish Balayagi (Telugu desam Party), Shashank Man Tripathi, Tejaswi Surya, Bhubaneswar K Lata (All From Bjp) Mallikarjun Devda (Shiv Sena) and former Indian ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu.
The delegation will project the national consensus of India and the firm position on the fight against terrorism in all its forms. They will carry the strong message of India on zero tolerance against terrorism to the world community during their awareness.
(With the exception of the title, this story has not been published by NDTV staff and is published from a unionized flow.)
