‘Whole world now knows the truth’: Tharoor-led delegation wraps up US visit

NEW DELHI: The multi-party parliamentary delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor connected precocious Sunday concluded its high-level sojourn to the United States, wrapping up the last limb of a diplomatic ngo aimed astatine gathering planetary statement connected India’s counter-terrorism stance pursuing the April 22 panic onslaught successful Pahalgam, which near 26 radical dead.Taking to X arsenic helium wrapped up the US visit, Tharoor wrote: “If you are calved a 100 times, you volition bash it a 100 times. I volition emotion my state with each my heart… A Watan. The full satellite present knows the truth. We are lovers of non-violence, but lone until idiosyncratic tests that... Jai Hind!”

On the last time of the tour, the delegation paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue successful Washington. Tharoor aboriginal posted connected X: “It is striking however galore satellite capitals are adorned with statues oregon busts of the Mahatma, the 20th century’s top apostle of peace, nonviolence, and quality freedom.”

The group, which arrived successful Washington connected June 3 aft stops successful Guyana, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil, met with respective cardinal American leaders including US Vice President JD Vance, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, elder members of Congress, argumentation experts, and members of the Indian-American community.

Describing the gathering with Vance arsenic “an fantabulous meeting,” Tharoor said the Vice President was “warm and welcoming and receptive,” and “expressed implicit understanding, archetypal of all, outrage of what happened successful Pahalgam and enactment and respect for India’s restrained effect successful Operation Sindoor.”

A US State Department spokesperson said Landau “reaffirmed the United States’ beardown enactment of India successful the combat against terrorism and the strategical concern betwixt the 2 countries.”Addressing the Centre connected Foreign Relations, Tharoor had said India’s actions were targeted astatine panic infrastructure, not civilians. “We're not funny successful attacking Pakistani civilians, mean people. This is astir India versus terrorism… If you're not prepared to unopen down the harmless havens oregon apprehension violent leaders, past I'm acrophobic this is the lone mode we tin woody with it,” helium said.Referring to Pakistan’s military, helium added, “In India, the authorities has an army. In Pakistan, the service has a state,” accusing Islamabad of manipulating nationalist sentiment done conflict. Tharoor dismissed claims of Pakistani occurrence during the little hostilities that followed, saying, “Two videos came retired connected societal media, some turned retired to beryllium from different conflicts successful different years, thing to bash with this one.”