‘Falsely Represented…’: Govt Clarifies After Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Pakistan Was Knowledgeable’ Put up – News18

Final Up to date:Might 17, 2025, 21:48 IST

The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) has additionally stated {that a} assertion on the timing of Pakistan being knowledgeable was being falsely represented.

The BJP on Saturday accused senior Congress chief and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi of spreading misinformation and serving as a “propaganda software” of Pakistan after the latter had claimed that the federal government had knowledgeable Pakistan firstly of Operation Sindoor.

What MEA Mentioned?

The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) has additionally stated {that a} assertion on the timing of Pakistan being knowledgeable was being falsely represented.

“We had warned Pakistan firstly, which is clearly the early section after Operation Sindoor’s graduation. That is being falsely represented as being earlier than the graduation. This utter misrepresentation of information is being referred to as out,” the MEA had stated.

What Rahul Gandhi Claimed?

The Lok Sabha LoP on Saturday shared an undated video of Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar wherein he was heard saying that firstly of Operation Sindoor, a message was despatched to Pakistan that solely terror bases had been being struck.

“Initially of the operation, we had despatched a message to Pakistan, saying we’re placing at terrorist infrastructure and we’re not placing on the army. So the army has the choice of standing out and never interfering on this course of. They selected to not take that good recommendation,” Jaishankar will be heard saying within the video.

Whereas sharing the video, Gandhi wrote, “Informing Pakistan firstly of our assault was against the law. EAM has publicly admitted that GOI (authorities of India) did it. Who authorised it? What number of plane did our air pressure lose because of this.”

BJP Slams Rahul Gandhi

BJP nationwide spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari hit again on the Lok Sabha LoP and accused him of spreading “faux information” and requested if the Congress was sad with the demolition of terror infrastructure in Pakistan underneath Operation Sindoor.

“Cease spreading faux information, Rahul Gandhi,” Bhandhari wrote on X.

He additionally posted a screenshot of the federal government’s PIB Reality Test unit’s publish on X which had rejected an identical declare earlier this week, as “deceptive.”

“Previous habits die exhausting. Rahul Gandhi who was partying after the 26/11 Mumbai Terror assault, and who was formally quoted by Pakistani army in its press convention is again to query our forces,” Bhandari charged in one other publish on X.

“Is Congress sad that Operation Sindoor demolished terror infrastructure in Pakistan,” he requested.

One other BJP nationwide spokesperson Ajay Alok accused the Congress chief of talking for Pakistan and requested him to “cease being a propaganda software of Pakistan”.

“You have got been doing this for the final three generations,” Alok stated in a video message on X, reacting to Gandhi’s remarks.

The PIB, in a publish on Thursday, had fact-checked a declare by a journalist wherein he alleged that Jaishankar had stated India knowledgeable Pakistan earlier than the beginning of Operation Sindoor that it might be hitting terrorist infrastructure within the nation.

“The social media publish falsely implies from Exterior Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar’s assertion that India knowledgeable Pakistan earlier than the beginning of #OperationSindoor. EAM is being misquoted and he has not made this assertion. Stay vigilant and keep away from falling for misleading data,” the PIB stated within the publish.

Operation Sindoor

India launched “precision strikes” underneath Operation Sindoor on 9 terror targets in Pakistan and PoK following the Pahalgam terror assault that killed 26 civilians. The strikes killed not less than 10 members of the family of JeM chief Masood Azhar and 4 shut aides.

The websites focused had been the Pakistani bases at Rafiqui (Shorkot, Jhang), Murid (Chakwal), Nur Khan (Chaklala, Rawalpindi) Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkur and Chunian (Kasur). Within the strikes, the air bases in Skardu, Bholari, Jacobabad and Sargodha suffered intensive injury.

Inside a tightly coordinated 24-minute window, India focused 21 terror camps linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) throughout 9 areas, 4 in Pakistan and 5 in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). The targets weren’t simply aimed toward avenging the Pahalgam assault, but additionally concentrating on terror websites the place different such assaults had been deliberate.

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