Pakistan's attacks on India shows that Islamabad backs terrorism : Indian Ambassador to US Vinay Kwatra

Amid rising concern in the world over the escalation between India and Pakistan, Indian Ambassador to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, has said that Pakistan’s actions in launching missile and drone attacks on India shows that Islamabad backs terrorism and the world should tell Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism.

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Speaking on CNN's show ‘The Situation Room’ with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, the Indian Ambassador also said that India’s Operation Sindoor, of launching cross-border attacks on terror camps in Pakistan and POK, was to avenge the Pahalgam terror attacks, because in no part of the world would such terrorists be allowed to be given free pass.

He also said that while there was a sense of finality in India after carrying out Operation Sindoor on May 7, Pakistan has chosen to escalate it further, and India is now dutybound to respond to that.

Asked about the breakout of tensions between the two nations, the Indian envoy said:

"The original breakout of tensions took place on 22nd April, when you had four terrorists backed by Pakistan, carried out brutal, sub human killings; monstruous kind of killings of 26 civilians, 25 Indian, one a Nepali national.

The brutality of the killings, they killed them in front of their innocent wives, and children. They gave them headshots, and they did so on the basis of religion. So, they killed all non-Muslims who were there. They identified their religion, and they proceeded to kill them.

“So what we did the day before yesterday was essentially our response to terror. We said we are a responsible country, we will have a measured, calibrated response, and that is what we did.

“We took out the terror factories in nine locations in Pakistan and PoK. We took them out where they trained them, equipped them, organised them, those are the facilities we took out. We were very clear in excluding the military establishment, the social and economic structures.”

Asked about explosions being heard in “the Indian part of Kashmir”, Kwatra interrupted, and pointed out that the entire Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India and the only issue to be resolved is the return of the Pakistan Occupied part of Kashmir.