'India won't turn the other cheek': Shashi Tharoor shows Pakistani Army officers' photos at terrorists' funeral to Panama president

Shashi Tharoor was speaking at an event organised by the Indian Embassy in the city,

Congress Shashi Tharoor-led India delegation showed with the President and the foreign minister of Panama pictures of Pakistani Army officials at the funeral of UN-designated terrorists who were killed in India's Operation Sindoor, according to ANI.

Later speaking at an event organised by the Indian Embassy in the city, the Congress MP said the motive behind the Pahalgam terror attack was to undermine India.

“When we struck their terror headquarters, we took some lives, and of course, a funeral was conducted. There were some very prominent people at that funeral. There was at least one individual whose name had been listed by the United Nations Sanctions Committee. It was people in uniform from the highest threat echelons of the Pakistani Army and police mourning at the funeral of designated terrorists," Tharoor said. “This is the country that now says we are innocent. We did not do it. You do not mourn for people you do not know.”

The Tharoor-led delegation includes Tejasvi Surya (BJP), Shashank Mani Tripathi (BJP), Bhubaneswar Kalita (BJP), Sarfaraz Ahmad (JMM), Gants Harish Madhur Balayogi (TDP), Milind Deora (Shiv Sena), and India's former Ambassador to the US, Taranjit Sandhu.

“He (Mahatma Gandhi) also taught us in his brave leadership in our struggle for freedom that we must always stand up for our rights," Shashi Tharoor said.

“We must always stand up in principle for the values we believe in, and we must live without fear that freedom from fear is what we in India have to fight for these days against the evil attacks of malign men who are called by the world as terrorists, but who believe that by doing this kind of thing of coming into our country, killing innocent people and going off again that they will somehow achieve some larger political or religious cause," he added.

Tharoor also said India will not turn the other cheek and will respond to any further attacks by Pakistan.

He also emphasised the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi to live without fear.

“He (Mahatma Gandhi) also taught us in his brave leadership in our struggle for freedom that we must always stand up for our rights," Tharoor said.

He said one must always stand up in principle for the values one believes in. “We must live without fear. That freedom from fear is what we in India have to fight for these days against the evil attacks of malign men who are called by the world as terrorists, but who believe that by doing this kind of thing of coming into our country, killing innocent people and going off again that they will somehow achieve some larger political or religious cause," he said.