Countering Pakistan, exposing its duplicity on terror, explaining Indus treaty stand: MEA briefs all-party teams

“Our ambassadors and missions overseas person already started moving connected lining up the meetings,” a delegation subordinate said.

JDU’s Jha, who is heading the squad visiting Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, said the cardinal connection to beryllium conveyed to these countries is that “India has had enough”.

“Essentially, successful the backdrop of the Pahalgam attacks, we are expected to convey to the countries that capable grounds has been fixed to Pakistan astir panic attacks successful India that emanated from their soil, but it has done nothing. We person fixed them DNA samples, telephone intercepts and truthful overmuch worldly evidence. The full planetary assemblage knows however overmuch grounds was shared with Pakistan pursuing the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Did Pakistan instrumentality immoderate enactment against (attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba chief) Hafiz Saeed?” Jha told The Indian Express.

“The occupation is erstwhile you effort to springiness grounds to the perpetrator itself, people determination is not going to beryllium immoderate action. Pakistan is not a mean country, adjacent the civilian authorities determination is tally by the Army. Pakistan tin nary longer play the victim. We volition convey to the countries we are visiting that India volition present instrumentality enactment and Operation Sindoor is the caller normal. The bottomline is ‘enough is enough’,” Jha said.

Following the briefing, Shinde told mediapersons: “Tomorrow, our radical volition permission for UAE and West Africa. Under the enactment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, each 7 delegations are leaving for antithetic countries to enactment guardant the basal of our country. The MEA did a country-wise briefing for each the groups contiguous and gave anecdotes of erstwhile violent attacks connected India. This briefing volition beryllium to beryllium utile for our visits… We volition sensitise different countries connected what India has been facing astatine the hands of Pakistan and panic implicit the years… The MEA volition supply dossiers to each group.”

BJD MP Sasmit Patra, who is portion of Shinde’s team, told The Indian Express, “It was a precise affirmative briefing wherever a bully position was shared by the Foreign Secretary. Specific talking points and the database of delegates we volition beryllium gathering connected the circuit volition beryllium fixed to america later. But the thought is that we person to correspond the involvement of the state rising supra enactment lines.”

Another subordinate of the delegation said the MPs were asked to speech astir the antithetic panic attacks that person been carried retired by groups based successful Pakistan and however it has go a hub of terror.

“We volition speech astir Pahalgam and the Operation Sindoor that followed. We are expected to springiness details of what we did since a batch of misinformation is being dispersed by Pakistan,” the delegation subordinate said.

According to the member, galore MPs asked questions astir the Indus Waters Treaty and India’s basal connected it.

“The Foreign Secretary clarified that the Indus determination was not a knee-jerk absorption and that India had already been moving connected the treaty. A batch has changed since the 1960s. The magnitude of h2o successful the stream strategy has decreased. Also, the Indus Waters Treaty was portion of a goodwill gesture, but successful the look of coercion erstwhile that goodwill itself does not exist, past however tin the pact beryllium sustained,” the subordinate said.

Another subordinate said the authorities gave a little mentation of the series of events since the Pahalgam onslaught until the ceasefire announced earlier this month. “We were told to marque it wide that during the ceasefire negotiations, determination was nary treatment with the US, that determination was perfectly nary speech astir commercialized and that it (the ceasefire) was done connected a bilateral level betwixt India and Pakistan,” the subordinate said.

The delegations were besides told wherefore the countries assigned to them person been chosen and the geopolitical value of selecting the countries wherever the delegations volition go.

“The Foreign Secretary told america that retired of the countries selected, 15 were (UN) Security Council members and 5 were going to go Security Council members,” a subordinate said.

Another subordinate of a delegation going to Southeast Asia said: “Whatever the authorities has said publically truthful far, we were told astir it successful greater detail. We person to resonate that.”

“The members asked regular questions astir who volition talk first, however to reply to questions,” said a subordinate aft the briefing, adding, “We person been provided immoderate speechmaking worldly to spell done earlier we acceptable retired connected our assignments.”