There was no nuclear signalling by Pakistan: Foreign Secretary to parliamentary panel

Vikram Misri

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told a parliamentary committee on Monday that the conflict between India and Pakistan was always in the conventional domain, and there was no nuclear signalling by the neighbouring country, reported CNN-News 18 citing official sources.

Misri appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on Monday to provide a comprehensive briefing on the Operation Sindoor and recent tensions between India and Pakistan.

The sources said Misri reiterated the government's stand that the decision to stop military actions was taken at a bilateral level, as some opposition members questioned US President Donald Trump's repeated assertions about his administration's role in stopping the conflict.

The meeting comes in the wake of heightened cross-border tensions triggered by the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed multiple lives and drew sharp condemnation from New Delhi.

In response, the Indian armed forces launched Operation Sindoor, targeting terror infrastructure across the border. The retaliatory action led to several days of military confrontation between India and Pakistan before both sides reached an understanding to halt hostilities on May 10.

The committee members also unanimously condemned the trolling of Misri following the stoppage of military actions and praised his professional conduct, the sources said. To questions about Turkiye's adversarial stand against India, he said the country had traditionally not been a supporter of India.

The meeting of Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was attended by a number of lawmakers, including the TMC's Abhishek Banerjee, the Congress' Rajeev Shukla and Deepender Hooda, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, and the BJP's Aparajita Sarangi and Arun Govil.