Shashi Tharoor Faces Son Ishaan Tharoor's Sharp Question in US (image screen grab:x.com/shahmanojk)
New York, US: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor encountered a tough and sharply pointed question from his Journalist son Ishaan Tharoor, while he was in the United States leading an all-party delegation. During an interaction at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Thursday, Ishaan, who works as a Foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post, posed a question to his father Tharoor seeking evidence against Pakistan.
When Ishaan Tharoor got up to raise a question Tharoor quickly reacted with a big smile, “that shoudn’t be allowed, that is my son.”
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Following, Ishaan Tharoor asked whether any country had asked the delegation led by his father for evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and asked about Pakistan’s consistent denial of its involvement in the attack.
#WATCH | Washington DC: On a question asked by his son about whether any country had asked the delegation for evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the Pahalgam attack and about Pakistan’s repeated denials of any role in the attack, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, “I’m very glad… pic.twitter.com/RR0tcVOwpU
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To this son’s question, Tharoor responded: “I’m very glad you raised this. I didn’t plant it, I promise you. Very simply, no one had any doubt, and we were not asked for evidence. But the media have asked in two or three places. Let me say very clearly that India would not have done this without convincing evidence.”
Continuing further, the Congress MP elaborated on Pakistan’s involvement in terrorism, citing the Mumbai attacks in 2008 and Osama Bin Laden’s final hideout near a Pakistani army base.
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“So we know what Pakistan’s all about. They will dispatch terrorists, they will deny they did so until they’re actually caught with red hands . . . ,” Tharoor said.
Tharoor is part of an all-party delegation on Operation Sindoor which is Modi government’s diplomatic effort to highlight India’s stand on terrorism and disinformation.
