'There will be a price to pay for terror attacks like Pahalgam', says Shashi Tharoor in US
Shashi Tharoor, currently leading an all-party Indian Parliamentary delegation said India will not allow people from across the border to kill
- WASHINGTON — Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is currently leading an all-party
Indian Parliamentary delegation in the US, said that there will a "price
to pay for carrying out terror attacks such as the recent one in Jammu and
Kashmir's Pahalgam on April 22", adding that India will not allow people
from across the border to kill Indian citizens with impunity.
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- The Indian delegation led by Tharoor interacted with
members of various think-tanks at the US Embassy on Thursday, which emphasised
upon India's fight against terrorism and the multi-faceted India-US
partnership, the Indian Embassy at the US posted on social media platform X.
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- Shashi Tharoor is leading the all-party delegation which
includes Shambhavi Chaudhary (Lok Janshakti Party), Sarfaraz Ahmed (Jharkhand
Mukti Morcha), G.M. Harish Balayogi (Telugu Desam Party), Shashank Mani
Tripathi, Tejasvi Surya, and Bhubaneswar Kalita (all from the BJP), former
Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and Shiv Sena MP Milind
Deora.
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- During interaction with think tanks and young
professionals, Tharoor said that the delegation has received solidarity and
understanding at everywhere they went.
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- He reiterated India's stance that "there will be a
price to pay" if terrorist attacks like the one in Pahalgam are carried
out in India.
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- He said, "And I'm very pleased to say that
everywhere we went and I could say this quite confidently without exception, we
have received both of what we sought. We have received understanding and we
have received solidarity. And these two things are really what we came for. We
will continue to meet others during the remaining time today and tomorrow. I
want to stress one thing, and then I'll be very happy to open it up for
discussions, and that thing is quite simply that this is not something we would
really have wanted to spend our time on."
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- "We are a country focused on growth and development.
Our focus has entirely been on the economic advances that are so essential to
pull a few the few people who remain below the poverty line in our country out
below that and to take the rest into the developed India of our dreams. But,
sadly, when this kind of thing is done to us, and for very cynical motives,
which I think are pretty apparent so I won't spell them out, it was necessary
for us to show that we will not allow people to cross the border and kill our
citizens with impunity. That for terror strikes like this, which show all the
hallmarks of meticulous planning and military style execution, that there will
be a price to pay. And that was very strongly the message that we sent."
