‘No phone call between PM and Trump between April 22 and June 17’: Jaishankar’s 10 key points during Op Sindoor debate

Here are the top 10 points made by Jaishankar on Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha:

• Thanks to India’s diplomacy, TRF – which owned up Pahalgam attack- designated as global terrorist organisation
• Who thought that terror sites in Bahawalpur and Muridke will be brought down the way they were.
• Multilateral groups such as Quad and BRICS condemned April 22 Pahalgam attack, so did many individual countries.
• German foreign minister said India has every right to defend itself against terror and will support us; so has France and EU.
• I want to make two things very clear — at no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage with trade and what was going on. Secondly, there was no call between the prime minister and President Trump from April 22 — when President Trump called up to convey his sympathy — till June 17, when he called up, the PM, who was in Canada, explained why he could not meet him.
• On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression of other countries that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting. Our position was that if Pakistan was ready, we needed to get this as a request from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel. That is exactly how that request came.
• Hitting out at Congress party, Jaishankar said that, “We are getting warnings about Pak-China collaboration, when this has been going on for 60 years.”
• People who did nothing have the temerity to question government which brought down Bahawalpur and Muridke terror sites.
• The longest Pakistan has been under FATF grey list was under the Modi government.
• Did not go to China for Olympics, secret deals; went there to make India’s stand clear on terror, trade and de-escalation.

The EAM further added that Operation Sindoor is a new normal in how we respond to terror. He stated that seven parliamentary delegations went to 33 nations. “…made India proud by explaining our zero tolerance towards terror to world leaders,” the minister said.

Talking about the post-Pahalgam actions of the government, the Union Minister said that the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) had decided that the Indus Waters Treaty would be held in abeyance until Pakistan abjures its support for terrorism, along with a host of other steps.

(With inputs from PTI)