New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday described U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement to stop military hostilities between India and Pakistan as a “politician who wants to gain credibility for something” and blasted the U.S. leader to reorganize the two South Asian countries. He asserted that he did not like Trump’s social media announcements to stop hostilities between India and Pakistan, and Tarole pointed out that the U.S. president tried to establish a “false equivalent” between India and Pakistan and said it was “shocking” to equate the victims with the perpetrators.
Asked about Trump’s announcement, Tharoor told the PTI video: “I think it’s a specific politician who wants to praise something.”
We made it very clear on May 7 that all we did was attack terrorist targets in Pahalgam’s revenge and the last thing we wanted to see was the beginning of a long-term conflict… We said at each stage that we had done something, we had made a message that if you react, we would react,” MP from Thiruvananthapuram said, we would react.
Tharoor clarified that he was a personal member of Congress’s speech, saying he didn’t like Trump’s social media posts on the issue.
Tarole said there are four problems with Trump’s message, including “false reciprocity” between India and Pakistan.
“You are making the victims and perpetrators equal, which is really shocking. Impressed that because of the result of this India is to have some kind of negotiations against Pakistan. We will never negotiate guns, we will never let Pakistan feel satisfied with Pakistan to release terrorist attacks, because he said he was talking about terrorists to some extent, and they were subjected to some kind of attitude.
“I don’t think Trump should suggest in any way, form or form that the Kashmiris dispute has been internationalized by the participation of the United States. We don’t even accept disputes of this nature, Kashmir is an integral part of India … we are not interested in this dispute.”
Tarol said that in the face of the basic assumptions of India’s foreign policy, the international community plays a role in solving this problem.
“I don’t believe we will do that. The fourth thing I don’t like about Trump’s tweet is that it reconstitutes India and Pakistan,” he said.
In the past 30 years, India has successfully been in the world and the US president, no longer clubbing countries.
Tarol also said the tension between India and Pakistan is nothing new.
“If we look back on the developments over the past decade, I think the last straw was the Pathankot attack…When the PM was very generous inviting Pakistanis to participate in the investigation of the attack. They sent their intelligence personnel to the Indian Air Force – something that never happened – and they went back.
“That’s the Prime Minister who felt that the Indian government concluded that you can never really believe in the Pakistani military and the entire agency there,” he said.
“So if you look back at things before Pahalgam, it’s not a very warm relationship. After Pahalgam it’s going to do further diving – because as you know, we’ve suspended the Indian Waters Treaty, we’ve reduced the number of embassies here, and here, in the High Commission, we’ve canceled the attachment to national defense,” he said.
Even if there was no shooting war, it was a very tense relationship, Taroll said.
“For four days we shot each other, which seemed like a very serious thing, and now it seems to have stopped. I hope it keeps that way, but even then, in this case, peace is just without war.”
India and Pakistan have learned that all shooting and military operations on land, air and oceans were immediately stopped after four days of cross-border strikes sparked fear of wider conflict, and that they immediately took effect.
Foreign Minister Vikram Misri said in a brief announcement that the directors of the military operations of the two countries agreed to the understanding on a phone call this afternoon.
The decisions of India and Pakistan were first made public by Trump in social media posts, while claiming that negotiations between the two sides were mediated by the United States.
