This is the crunch time for India’s all-party delegation which will now be in Operation Sindoor after its outreach efforts in the United States. Interestingly, the Indian delegation will see a face-off with a Pakistani delegation led by Bilawal Bhutto, which will also be in the US at the same time.
India’s delegation leader and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, however, is convinced to push India’s message to terrorism.
Talking to Annie, Tharoor said that American media is a difficult place, but people who are against terrorism and care about Southeast Asia and are against terrorism, they will listen to India.
“In Washington, we will have an interesting phenomenon of the Pakistani delegation in the US, and almost the same day … tomorrow they will be almost in Washington, while we are in Washington on the same date. So perhaps interest has increased because there are two duality representatives in the same city,”
Tharoor said that although India’s case may not be at the top of the American media agenda, India can easily get its message.
“This is a challenging atmosphere. America is a very crowded media space, the world’s news generator. Therefore, our story cannot be at the top of their minds. But if we can attract the attention of those who care about South Asia, those who care about India, who care about India, we can get our message very easily,” he said.
Tharoor said that the delegation meetings are established with influential government officials and committees who form public opinion.
He said, “In Washington, we have meetings with a full range of public opinions among Washington, government officials, MLAs, senators and various committees in Congress, House and Senate, think tanks which are very impressive in Washington, especially foreign policy, media and some public addresses, such as focus on media and some public addresses, such as National Press Club.
Tharoor said that the US is important for India in terms of defense, intelligence sharing, quad, etc.
“America is important for us at all levels because the Security Council is in a sense in a sense of our relationship with America, which is very large, whether it comes for business, whether it comes for defense, whether it shares intelligence information, whether it comes for our participation in the quad in the G20, we collaborate with America.”
Tharoor said that it is no coincidence that Pakistan sent its delegation, but they are not covering many countries as India. They are covering countries that they consider important.
“It is not an accident that Pakistanis have also sent a delegation abroad, but they are not going to many countries as an Indian delegation. They are focusing on that they are considering some major capitals, ie Washington, Brussels. London. London. It seems to be the stress of Pakistani efforts. We have gone to all those statements.”
Tharoor said that he has great respect for the US, but denied claims that the US had medically meditated to reach the end of enmity. He said that India never wanted war.
“We have great respect for the post of US President, and we will speak keeping in mind that honor. But roughly, our understanding is a bit different … No one needed to persuade us to stop us.
He said, “We had said from the beginning from May 7 that we are not interested in lengthening the struggle. It is not the inauguration salvo in any kind of war. All these terrorists are vengeance against the period. If Pakistan did not react, we would not have reacted,” he said.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) president Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on 17 May that Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif had tasked him to lead a delegation to present Pakistan’s case on the recent increase of tension between the two nations.
The delegation is headed by Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. The nine -member delegation consists of members of the Parliament beyond the political spectrum, reflecting the lively and inclusive democratic character of India. The delegation includes Sarfaraz Ahmed, Ganti Harish Madhur, Shashank Mani Tripathi, Bhubaneswar Kalita, Tejasvi Surya and Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu. (AI)
