Tharoor Attacks Pakistan For Raising Kashmir Issue At Ipu dailypioneer.com
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has hit out at Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly in Serbia, saying it is ironic that a state responsible for “infecting countless” cross-border terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir is trying to masquerade as the champion of Kashmiris”.
Tharoor said Pakistan is the only government in the world that provides a pension to an individual listed by the United Nations in the Al Qaeda sanctions list and it is absurd to hear fulminations about respect for human rights from such a state. The Indian delegation was headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The Indian delegation rebutted baseless allegations of the Pakistani delegation about Jammu and Kashmir at two different sessions, the Lok Sabha secretariat said in a statement and also shared videos of Tharoor’s remarks.
Tharoor said the Parliament of India will not allow these malicious efforts to succeed. “We expect better from parliamentarians then vituperative mudslinging,” he said at the IPU’s 141st assembly at Belgrade in Serbia being held from October 13-17.
He said Pakistan had raised an issue internal to India and extraneous to their discussions for narrow political gains. The Indian delegation rejected outright and strongly condemned such references, Tharoor said.
“I am a member of Parliament from the leading opposition party in India and we will continue to use our Parliament to discuss and debate with our government on Kashmir and other issues. We will fight our own battles democratically and don’t need or welcome interference from across the border,” he said. Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India. It is ironic that a state which is responsible for infecting countless cross-border terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir is trying to masquerade as the champion of Kashmiris.
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