Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is leading the all-party delegation that’s reaching out to the US over Operation Sindoor, said on Sunday that India’s military response to the Pahalgam terror attack is going to be the new normal in India’s approach to combating terrorism.
Tharoor said no one sitting in Pakistan is going to be allowed to believe that they can just walk across the border and kill Indian citizens with impunity, as he asserted that there will be a “price to pay.”
India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 in response to the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives on May 22 in Kashmir. Tharoor is leading a delegation of Indian MPs to Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and the US, conveying India’s resolve against terrorism and emphasising Pakistan’s links to terrorism.
“Within one hour of the atrocity, a group called Resistance Front had claimed credit, they were known as frontal organisation of banned LeT, which is on the US designated terror list as well, UN sanctions committee, India had gone to the UN sanctions committee with information about Resistance Front in 2023, 2024, 2025. After global condemnation, they deleted the claim,” Tharoor said.
“Therefore, the culpability lay not just with 4-5 evil killers who came to Pahalgam, but also with those who send them, finance them, train them, equip them, guide them,” he added.
Speaking against Pakistan, Tharoor said that it chose the ‘usual path of denial’.
“We know where the responsibility lay. Sadly Pakistan chose the usual path of denial, they succeeded with the help of China, succeeded in removing a reference to Resistance Front from the press statement of the UN two days later. Though the name was not mentioned, we knew what was happening. India replied that this will not go unanswered,” he said.
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