New Delhi [India], May 23 : Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday said that India sending all-party delegations to partner countries is a global outreach to inform, sensitise and mobilise the world opinion about the grave threat that terrorism poses to India, to this region and to the world.
Sharma, who is a member of the all-party delegation going to Egypt, Qatar, Ethiopia, South Africa, said that Pakistan, for long, has been the epicentre of terrorism.
"The terror outfits are nurtured, funded and sheltered by the state of Pakistan, by their military leadership. So this is something which cannot be allowed to go unchecked... Pakistan needs to be exposed... All political parties, including the Indian National Congress, extended unequivocal support to India's response and the actions that India took. Nations stood up in solidarity with the Indian Defence Forces and we have saluted their action," Sharma told ANI.
Asked about the main points that the delegation will put forth, he said it is the isolation of states that sponsor terror. "There has to be deterrence. It cannot go unpunished," he said.
The all-party delegations will project India's national consensus and resolute approach to combating terrorism in all forms and manifestations. They would carry forth to the world the country's strong message of zero tolerance against terrorism.
Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7 as a decisive military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed. Indian Armed Forces targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the death of over 100 terrorists.
Indian Armed Forces also effectively repelled subsequent Pakistani aggression and pounded its airbases.