Why India paused & didn't end Op Sindoor after punishing Pak-backed terrorists for Pahalgam massacre
From the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu & Kashmir on April 22 to India's Operation Sindoor, to a ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan on May 10, a series of big events have taken place over the last few weeks. India has struck both terror and military infrastructure in Pakistan in the past few days. Now that the two nuclear-armed neighbours have agreed to a ceasefire, one question remains- what really happened? In this episode of Point Blank, Hindustan Times Executive Editor Shishir Gupta decodes why Pakistan had to seek a ceasefire & why India has only paused Operation Sindoor and not stopped it altogether. Watch.
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The Print
an hour ago
- The Print
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But as I was earlier pointing out that when we took the dispute to the United Nations in 1948, the Jammu and Kashmir question at that point in time in pursuance of the UN resolution, there was the UN group on India and Pakistan on Kashmir. 'There was an attempt at a structured mediation. You see, a mediation or an arbitration or an alternative dispute resolution is when two parties agree to the terms of reference of a dispute, which then they allow an arbitrator or a mediator to try and adjudicate,' said Tewari. Asked about the Congress's official position, Tewari said it could be the reflection of a 'bitterly contested political space' where 'nobody is prepared to give any quarter' to the other side. 'In fact, even when the delegation was traveling, the kind of rhetoric which was being articulated by certain sections of the NDA/BJP establishment, was also something which was completely avoidable. But that unfortunately is the nature of our politics, whether you like it or not,' said Tewari, serving his third term as a Lok Sabha MP. However, Tewari added, there needs to be consensus on the fact that Pakistan has been a chronic sponsor of low-intensity conflict which needs to be exposed in the court of global opinion, 'as against whatever may be your internal dynamics or the questions that you may have surrounding the events of 7th 8th of May, the night of 7th, 8th of May till the 10th of May.' 'I, for one, understand and appreciate that distinction, and that's why we were completely focused on exposing Pakistan and trying to tell our interlocutors that this is not only a threat to the stability of South Asia, this is a threat to the stability of the world, given the very nature and the the chronic disposition of that state to use violence as a means of trying to achieve its senses,' he said. Responding to a question on the Congress leadership being upset over the Centre picking leaders like him, Shashi Tharoor, Salman Khurshid for the delegations instead of the names suggested by Gandhi and party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Tewari said such things do not bother him. 'Honestly, we have been in this contested, politically acerbic, bitter space for 25 years. And there is a larger national interest, which is at play, and that larger national interest is proscribing Pakistan, which uses terror as an instrument of state policy. And to me, that was the objective. And the rest of it, for someone who has been a card-carrying member of this noise for the last two-and-a-half decades, it's really no skin off my back,' he said. (Edited by Tony Rai) Also Read: Ex-Congress minister who worked with Indira, Narasimha Rao, heads to RSS HQ to 'bridge Sangh-tribals gap'
New Indian Express
an hour ago
- New Indian Express
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