• Source:JND
Add as a preferred

Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP leading the delegation to Columbia on Thursday (local time), expressed disappointment with the country's condemnation of deaths in Pakistan as a result of Operation Sindoor, whom India had categorically called terrorists.

Tharoor's statement came as he arrived in Colombia, leading the global outreach to expose Pakistan-backed terrorism, after concluding his visit to Panama.

"We were a little disappointed in the reaction of the Colombian government, which apparently expressed heartfelt condolences on the loss of lives in Pakistan after the Indian strikes, rather than sympathising with the victims of terrorism," Tharoor said.\

We are only exercising our right of self-defence, and if there is any misunderstanding here on this core, we are here to dispel any such misunderstanding. We’re very happy to talk to Colombia in some detail about the circumstances," he said.

He further reiterated India's stance that there can be no equivalence between the perpetrators and victims of terrorism. "We will say to our friends in Colombia, there can be no equivalence between those who dispatch terrorists and those who resist them. There can be no equivalence between those who attack and those who defend."

ALSO READ: India’s Global Outreach On Op Sindoor: Tharoor-Led All-Party Delegation Reaches Guyana, Meets VP Bharrat Jagdeo

While addressing the media in Bagota, Tharoor highlighted the grave concern of India against terrorism saying, "India suffered a grievous terrorist attack on the 22nd of April... When this happened, of course, the world rose up to condemn the terrorist attack, but that was as far as it went. There was no action taken, not even by the country where these people had emerged from, Pakistan. Nobody was arrested, and there was no attempt at any prosecution. India decided that this kind of outrage could not go unpunished. On May 7, India chose to strike against known terror bases and launch pads."

Tharoor also showed the picture of Pakistani Army officials attending the funerals of terrorists after India's strike on their terror bases.

"There (in Pakistan) was a well-publicised funeral of one of the terrorists on the sanctions list. That funeral was attended by uniformed senior military and police personnel from Pakistan. That is the extent of complicity that we are seeing between the terrorists who perpetrate crimes of this nature and those who finance, guide, train, arm, and equip them and do provide them safe haven to continue their training and their other awful deeds," he said.

(With ANI Inputs)

ALSO READ: 'Our Message Is Very Clear': Shashi Tharoor Warns Pak From Guyana; Echoes Voice Against Terrorism