India has little interest in struggle however terrorists should not go unpunished: Shashi Tharoor in Panama

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor-led delegation on Tuesday (Could 27, 2025; native time) held a gathering with Panama Meeting President Dana Castaneda, the place the Thiruvananthapuram MP conveyed India’s resolute place in opposition to terrorism whereas informing the others about Pahalgam terror assault.

Mr Tharoor additionally emphasised the unity of all political events for the nationwide function and acknowledged that India won’t tolerate cross-border terrorism and can take motion in opposition to perpetrators.

“All of us come from completely different political backgrounds and completely different elements of India, however we’re united in nationwide function… After the Pahalgam terror assault on April 22, we waited to see whether or not the Pakistan authorities would take any motion in opposition to the perpetrators of the horrible crime. When nothing was clearly being achieved, two weeks later, on the seventh of Could, we attacked the identified headquarters of terrorist bases inside Pakistan,” he stated.

“We had little interest in beginning a struggle, however we felt {that a} terrorist act should not go unpunished,” Mr Tharoor added.

Mr Tharoor additional sought an understanding upfront with the Panama authorities in case if one other terrorist assault occurs in India.

“We do consider, sadly, that this downside (terrorist assaults sponsored by Pakistan) just isn’t over and if there may be one other terrorist incident tomorrow, we consider that we are going to not have to come back again right here, we can have your understanding upfront,” Mr Tharoor stated.

Panama Meeting President Dana Castaneda assured that Panama has a robust legislation in opposition to terrorism. “We’ve got a really sturdy legislation in opposition to terrorism”, Ms Castaneda replied.

The all get together delegation led by Mr Tharoor arrived in Panama Metropolis for a three-day official go to after concluding their go to to Guyana.

In the course of the go to, the Members of Parliament shall be interacting with Panamanian management and key interlocutors from media, strategic neighborhood, Indian neighborhood and diaspora, and pals of India in Panama, in line with the Indian Embassy in Panama.

In a press release shared on X, Indian Embassy in Panama stated, “The delegation shall be interacting with Panamanian management and key interlocutors from media, strategic neighborhood, Indian neighborhood and diaspora, and pals of India in Panama, underlining our sturdy message of unity and brotherhood in addition to India’s collective resolve to struggle in opposition to the scourge of terrorism.”

“An all-party parliamentary delegation from India, led by Dr Shashi Tharoor, Hon’ble Member of Parliament, shall be visiting the Republic of Panama from 27-29 Could 2025 to convey India’s sturdy message of zero-tolerance for terrorism in all its types and manifestations.”, the assertion learn.

The delegation, led by Mr Tharoor, includes Members of Parliament — Sarfaraz Ahmed, G M Harish Balayogi, Shashank Mani Tripathi, Tejasvi Surya, Bhubaneswar Kalita, Mallikarjun Devda, Milind Deora and former Indian Ambassador to the U.S., Taranjit Singh Sandhu.

‘Our need to be left alone not reciprocated by different facet’

Mr Tharoor additionally slammed Pakistan over their steady assault on Indian territory by means of terrorism.

Addressing the Indian neighborhood in Panama, Mr Tharoor stated, “Sadly, our need to only be left alone just isn’t reciprocated by our pals on the opposite facet of the border. They’ve chosen repeatedly to assault us as a result of they consider that they need territory which they don’t management, which we management. It’s a part of the sovereign borders of the United Indian, and we’re not going to present it to them even when we have now to pay the value that we have now repeatedly been paid. “

He stated that India has suffered assault after assault for nearly 4 a long time and that it’s not acceptable for us to proceed to bear the ache.

“We’ve got suffered assault after assault for nearly 4 a long time now. Going again from the primary assaults in Kashmir in 1989 onwards, we have now seen repeated outrageous civilian victims,” Mr Tharoor stated.

“It’s simply not acceptable for us to proceed to bear the ache, the grief, the injuries, the losses, after which merely go and inform the worldwide neighborhood, look what is going on to us. Please assist us. Please put stress on the perpetrators to truly determine and prosecute the criminals,” he added.

Mr Tharoor additionally highlighted India’s modified place in coping with the terrorists, citing Uri strikes when Indian Armed Forces crossed LoC to struck the terrorists and Balakot strikes when forces crossed Worldwide border.

“What has modified lately is that the terrorists have additionally realised they are going to have a value to pay, on that, let there be little doubt. When, for the primary time, India breached the Line of Management between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad – the Uri strike in September 2015. That was already one thing we had not achieved earlier than. Even through the Kargil Battle, we had not crossed the Line of Management; in Uri, we did, after which got here the assault in Pulwama in January 2019. This time, we crossed not solely the Line of Management but additionally the worldwide border, and we struck the terrorist headquarters in Balakot. This time, we have now gone past each of these. We’ve got not solely gone past the Line of Management and the worldwide border. We’ve got struck on the Punjabi heartland of Pakistan by hitting terror bases, coaching centres, terror headquarters in 9 locations,” Mr Tharoor stated.

Mr Tharoor pressed on the need of Operation Sindoor following Pahalgam terror assault and stated, “Some girls cried out the terrorists killed me too, they usually stated, ‘No, return, inform what occurred to you.’ We heard, we heard their cries and India determined that the color of the Sindoor, the vermilion color on the brow of our girls, will even match the color of the blood of the killers, the perpetrators, the attackers…”

“Our Prime Minister has made it very clear Operation Sindoor was vital as a result of these terrorists got here and wiped the Sindoor off the foreheads of 26 girls by depriving them of their husbands and fathers, their married lives…” he added.

A second of silence was noticed in reminiscence of the harmless civilians killed in Pahalgam terror assault by Tharoor-led delegation together with members of the Indian neighborhood on the Sociedad Hindostana de Panama – a distinguished Panamanian Indian cultural establishment.