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Shashi Tharoor is a member of the all-party delegation tasked with Operation Sindoor outreach overseas (ANI Photo)
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is currently leading an all-party delegation overseas, attacked Pakistan and China for preventing Lashkar-e-Taiba’s “The Resistance Front” (TRF) from being named in a UNSC statement. Tharoor alleged that Pakistan, “with the support of their friends in China”, made sure that the front is not named in a press statement made by the United Nations Security Council.
While interacting with Ambassador Celso Amorim, Head Adviser of the Special Advisory to the President of Brazil, Tharoor pointed out that India tried to raise the issue of LeT-backed terror group the Resistance Front before the UN Sanctions Committee multiple times, but the action was blocked by China’s support to Pakistan.
Tharoor said, “LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) has created this front called Resistance Front, we have been reporting about Resistance Front to UN Sanctions Committee, time after time. They (TRF) claimed credit for the killings, and the next day they repeated that claim. But when they realised the gravity of it, their handlers in Pakistan got them to delete the claim. However, their claim is on record for 24 hours.”
Attacking Pakistan and Beijing, the Congress MP said, “When India encouraged our friends on Security Council to mention the Resistance Front in the press statement that Security Council issued, Pakistan government, I am sorry to say that, with the support of your friend in China, took out the name, so there is not even a reference.”
Tharoor, among other MPs, is part of an all-party delegation tasked with travelling to dozens of countries and spreading the message behind India’s Operation Sindoor and the fight against terrorism.
During his interaction with Ambassador Amorim in Brazil, the senior Congress leader said that India’s fight is against terrorism being used as an instrument of state policy. He also pointed out how the funerals of terrorists who were killed in Operation Sindoor were attended by senior police and military officials in Pakistan.
Tharoor, while holding up a photo of one of these funerals, said, “When we struck those terror bases on May 7, there was a funeral at one of these sites conducted by Hafiz Abdur Rauf, an LeT figure named by the United Nations. Look who’s attending the funeral – uniformed officials of the police and military of Pakistan. These are all senior officials, this is what is going on in Pakistan.”
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