An all-party parliamentary delegation led by Congress chief Shashi Tharoor will meet members of the U.S. Congress, American officers, suppose tanks and coverage specialists to transient them on Operation Sindoor, terrorism confronted by India and regional safety.
The delegation arrived in the U.S. capital on Tuesday (June 2, 2025) and can have packed days of engagements until Thursday (June 5, 2025).
The multi-party group shall be participating with members of the U.S. Congress, American suppose tanks and media professionals.
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Chairperson of the Standing Committee on External Affairs Tharoor is main the delegation, which contains Sarfaraz Ahmad (JMM), Ganti Harish Madhur Balayogi (TDP), Shashank Mani Tripathi (BJP), Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena), Tejasvi Surya (BJP) and India’s former Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Sandhu.
“An all-party delegation led by Dr. @ShashiTharoor arrives in Washington D.C. Over the next two days the delegation will be meeting members of the U.S. Congress and administration, think tanks, media and policymakers to brief them on Operation Sindoor and India’s strong stand against terrorism,” the Indian Embassy stated in a publish on X.
The delegation, which had reached New York from India on May 24, travelled to Guyana, Panama, Colombia and Brazil earlier than arriving in Washington for the final leg of its tour.
In its interactions in the U.S., the delegation will convey India’s resolve towards terrorism and emphasise Pakistan’s hyperlinks to terrorism.
Speaking to PTI, delegation member Mr. Deora stated that the group in the U.S., in addition to these visiting different areas and international locations, is telling the world that “India has had enough.”
He stated that each nation they visited to date “issued very unequivocal, I would almost say, unconditional, statements in favour of India.”
He asserted that simply as international locations just like the U.S. have each proper to shield themselves and remove terrorists, whether or not state-sponsored or non-state actors, “India has that same right. And for India to grow, for India’s economy to thrive, for American investments to continue to perform in India, India needs peace. India needs strong borders. India needs security,” he stated.
“We want to live in peace. We will prefer it if we have a stable neighbour. Nobody wants an unstable lunatic living next to you,” he stated.
Another delegation member Mr. Surya advised PTI that there’s completely no sympathy in the direction of Pakistani-originated terrorism.
The international locations the delegation visited have “very clearly understood why India was constrained to respond militarily in the way it did and have supported India’s counterterrorism measure.”
On Wednesday (June 4, 2025), when the Indian delegation begins its conferences right here, a parliamentary delegation from Pakistan led by Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman and former overseas minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari can be set to arrive in Washington, DC.
Speaking to reporters on the United Nations headquarters in New York, Mr. Zardari, who met U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alongside together with his delegation, stated they might meet U.S. Government representatives and lawmakers in the American capital.
“The President of the United States has a unique opportunity to deliver on his commitment to peace within the context of India and Pakistan. The United States enjoys good relations with Pakistan and enjoys good relations with India…we will be seeking to encourage the United States and other international players to play their role, to facilitate this process,” Mr. Zardari stated.
On the Pakistani delegation arriving in Washington the identical day, Mr. Deora stated, “There is no doubt in anyone’s mind in the United States that Pakistan is a banana republic, a failed state, a terror exporter, a country where the civilian government has no power, (it’s) the army that controls the power. So, I don’t think that it matters to India that there’s a Pakistani delegation trying to play copy and paste.”
Mr. Surya additionally stated that it was not the “first time that the Pakistanis tried to copy India in what India tries to do, but they end up a cheap copy.” He stated that the world has lengthy noticed what India stands for and what Pakistan stands for.
Investing in India, he stated, is seen as an funding in democracy, accountable civilian management and world progress. On the opposite hand, he famous that each terrorist assault in the final 20-30 years that has rocked the world has had investigations immediately or not directly main to Pakistan.
He added that over 50 U.N.-designated terrorists have shaped a protected haven in Pakistan. “So, the narrative of a country like Pakistan cannot be salvaged by an accented English-speaking suit-wearing ex-foreign minister. Pakistan’s hands are too full in blood to be washed away by this overnight drama,” Mr. Surya stated.
The Tharoor-led delegation is without doubt one of the seven multi-party delegations India had tasked to go to 33 world capitals to attain out to the worldwide neighborhood to emphasise Pakistan’s hyperlinks to terrorism.
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault, with India finishing up precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7.
Pakistan tried to assault Indian navy bases on May 8, 9, and 10. The Indian facet responded strongly to the Pakistani actions.
The on-ground hostilities ended with an understanding of stopping the navy actions following talks between the administrators common of navy operations of each side on May 10.
Published – June 04, 2025 12:26 pm IST
