BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, who recently led an all-party delegation on a multi-national tour, said on Tuesday that the delegation had conveyed to global leaders India's firm policy of zero tolerance against cross-border terrorism. According to him, the team informed their international counterparts that Pakistan is still enmeshed in a "military-terrorist nexus," in which the generals there utilise terrorism as a cover to stay in power.
The BJP MP told reporters, "Pakistan is not just a state in denial, but the military-terrorist nexus has become a dangerous mix." "We discussed how Pakistan is controlled by generals when we discussed history. The world must realise that terrorists and terrorist organisations are part of a military-general nexus that controls Pakistan. The Generals in Pakistan's new system use terrorism as a cover to stay in power.
Regarding contacts with foreign authorities, he stated that the group presented the background of India-Pakistan relations, emphasising how India has consistently pursued peaceful relations while Pakistan has persisted in funding terrorism. India has never been the aggressor in a conflict, he emphasised.
"We presented the history of Pakistan and India. In Pakistan, we were born on August 15 and August 14 of the same year. They (Pakistan) are pleading for money, and we are the fourth-largest economy, with the potential to become the third," he remarked. "We were never the aggressors in the traditional conflicts we have fought (with Pakistan)." We have stated unequivocally that we have nothing against the Pakistani people.
Prasad used previous terror attacks, such as the 2016 Uri attack and the 2019 Pulwama attack, to claim that every Indian government has sincerely tried to build positive ties with Pakistan. "We stated that every Indian government has made an effort to maintain cordial ties with Pakistan. After calling former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and attending his grandson's wedding, PM Modi remarked, "Uri (the attack) occurred, and we responded appropriately. Then Pulwama followed, and now this (Pahalgam)."
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He also discussed the positive response the Indian diaspora gave the delegation when it visited other countries. In Copenhagen, he also ran into fans of Pakistan, who mockingly implied that demonstrators opposing the trip might have been funded in part by the money from the recent IMF loan to Pakistan.
In addition to those Pakistanis who were protesting, there were about 400 people in Copenhagen who came to hear us. Although Modi ji is well-known, they also made references to it using my name. Since our group had already visited with authorities in three nations and had been successful, I had mentioned that Islamabad would have had questions and that they had also received the IMF loan, so they could have received some funding here. In addition to Congress MP Amar Singh, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, AIADMK MP M Thambidurai, former diplomat Pankaj Saran, and BJP MPs Daggubati Purandeswari, MJ Akbar, Gulam Ali Khatana, and Samik Bhattacharya, the delegation was led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad.
In order to brief nations about Operation Sindoor and clarify India's stance against terrorism, the group traveled to the UK, France, Germany, Brussels, Belgium, Italy, and Denmark. After Pakistan-sponsored militants carried out a terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22 that left 26 people dead and numerous others injured, the operation was started on May 7.
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