Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri (File photo)
India Pakistan News Live Updates: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Tuesday briefed three of the seven multi-party delegations on Pakistan’s long sponsorship of terrorism in India and how the country is determined to respond strongly to any terror incidents on its soil. “Our message to world leaders will be that enough is enough and that Pakistan has acted like a thief asked to probe his own crime whenever India has in the past trusted its words on acting against terrorism,” JD(U) leader Sanjay Jha told PTI. Jha is leading a delegation to Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia. Shiv Sena leader Shrikant Shinde, who is leading a delegation to the UAE and some African countries, said they will highlight Pakistan’s links to terror incidents in India.
TMC on board, Uddhav Sena gets a call: A day after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) said it would not send Lok Sabha MP Yusuf Pathan, picked by the Centre as one of the members for the all-party delegations visiting foreign capitals, saying it had not been consulted, Abhishek Banerjee, the party’s Diamond Harbour MP and de facto second-in-command, was added to a delegation. Abhishek replaces Pathan in the group headed by the JD(U)’s Sanjay Kumar Jha. The Shiv Sena (UBT) posted that its president Uddhav Thackeray had received a call from Union Minister Rijiju on Monday, with regards to the all-party delegations.
Rahul Gandhi, Congress questions EAM: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asked External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to clarify whether India had informed Pakistan about targeting the terrorist infrastructure on its soil, and what it had meant in terms of aircraft “lost” by India. Doubling down on the allegations, Congress media department head Pawan Khera alleged that Jaishankar’s remarks on the issue may have “helped terrorists escape.” Gandhi’s remarks sparked a political row, with the External Affairs Ministry deeming his remarks “a misrepresentation of facts”.
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