Colombia's U-Turn On Pak Deaths, Day After Shashi Tharoor's "Disappointment"

Colombia is scheduled to contented a connection successful beardown enactment of India's presumption connected terror, successful a pivot from the South American country's condolences for the deaths successful Pakistan aft India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7.

Leading an all-party delegation sojourn to Colombia, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, "They person withdrawn their connection that disappointed america earlier and volition contented a connection of beardown enactment for our position." This comes a time aft helium raised interest implicit Colombia's stance and said New Delhi was disappointed by it.

Former Indian Ambassador to the United States and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Taranjit Singh Sandhu said that the delegation's elaborate mentation helped reverse the Colombian stance. "This greeting we had a elaborate enactment with the acting Foreign Minister and our person and the full squad made circumstantial points to them explaining to them the timeline which possibly to an grade they mightiness person missed out. The value of Colombia, isolated from different reasons, is besides that it volition beryllium a subordinate of the Security Council soon," Mr Sandhu told ANI.

An arsenic affirmative gathering followed astatine the Colombian Congress (National Assembly) with Alejandro Toro, President of the Second Commission of the Chamber of Representatives (the equivalent of our Foreign Affairs Committee) and Jaime Raul Salamanca, President of the Chamber of… pic.twitter.com/91uentRN3r — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) May 30, 2025

Colombia's Vice Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio said, "We are precise assured that with the mentation that we received contiguous and the elaborate accusation that we present person regarding the existent situation, the conflict, and what happened successful Kashmir, we tin besides proceed the dialogue."

Responding to Colombia's connection connected Friday, Mr Tharoor had emphasised that determination tin nary equivalence betwixt those who dispatch terrorists and those who support themselves.

The Thiruvananthapuram MP reiterated that New Delhi has factual impervious that Pakistan-sponsored panic was down the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught successful which 26 civilians were massacred. "We are lone exercising our close of self-defence. Just arsenic Colombia has endured galore panic attacks, truthful person we successful India. We person endured a precise ample fig of attacks for astir 4 decades, " helium said.

The delegation led by Mr Tharoor arrived successful Colombia connected Thursday aft visiting Panama and Guyana. During the people of their enactment successful Bogota, the delegation volition beryllium interacting with the Members of Congress, Ministers and different cardinal interlocutors successful deliberation tanks and media. The delegation includes Sarfraz Ahmad (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha), G M Harish Balayogi (Telugu Desam Party), Shashank Mani Tripathi (BJP), Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena), Tejasvi Surya (BJP), and erstwhile ambassador of India to US Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

The radical is 1 of the 7 multi-party delegations India has tasked to sojourn 33 planetary capitals to scope retired to the planetary assemblage aft the Pahalgam panic attack.

Tensions betwixt India and Pakistan escalated aft the Pahalgam attack, which claimed 26 lives. India carried retired precision strikes connected panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful the aboriginal hours of May 7, pursuing which Pakistan attempted to onslaught Indian subject bases connected May 8, 9, and 10. The Indian broadside responded powerfully to the Pakistani actions.

The on-ground hostilities ended with an knowing of stopping the subject actions pursuing talks betwixt the directors wide of subject operations of some sides connected May 10.