Colombia has withdrawn statement supporting Pakistan, will back India: Shashi Tharoor
Colombia will issue a statement in support of India’s stance after it withdrew an earlier one condoling the deaths in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, The Hindu quoted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as saying on Friday.
Tharoor, who is leading an Indian all-party parliamentary delegation to Colombia, confirmed the development during a visit to Bogota’s Tadeo Lozano University, the newspaper added.
“They have withdrawn their earlier statement that disappointed us and will issue a statement of strong support for our position and understanding of our position,” The Hindu quoted Tharoor as saying.
On Thursday, Tharoor had expressed disappointment over the Colombian government’s “heartfelt condolences over the loss of lives in Pakistan, rather than sympathising with the victims of [Pahalgam] terror [attack]”, The Indian Express reported.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP had said that “there can be no equivalence between those who dispatch terrorists and those who resist them”.
“There can be no equivalence between those who attack and those who defend,” he said.
He added that India, during Operation Sindoor, had only exercised its right of self-defence and...
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