Tharoor slams Pakistan on Kashmir, says interference 'not welcome'

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is known for his eclectic vocabulary, employed his impeccable stash of words to blast out at Pakistan. The parliamentarian from Thiruvananthapuram was attending a meet at an international forum in Serbia, where he was representing India, when he lashed out at Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue again.

Tharoor called Pakistan a nation responsible for multiple terrorist attacks across the border in Kashmir and called it out for trying to “masquerade as a champion of Kashmiris”.

Pakistan claimed at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a global platform for multilateral political negotiations, that it was not able to host the APA session in 2018 because of the hostile situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Tweeting about his reaction at the global forum, Tharoor wrote: “I was obliged on behalf of the Indian delegation to respond to a vitriolic outburst by Pakistan's delegate at the @IPUparliament.”

I was obliged on behalf of the Indian delegation to respond to a vitriolic outburst by Pakistan’s delegate at the ⁦@IPUparliament⁩ : pic.twitter.com/17fXHUcb37

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 16, 2019

Terming Pakistan’s attempts as “vituperative mudslinging”, he said: “We will fight our own battles democratically and don't need or welcome interference from across the border.”

Unfortunately three hours later they did it again at a panel on Respect for International Law. This time i had to respond more sharply&at greater length as part of my own speech, since there was no "right of reply" &the Pak delegate was a panelist himself: https://t.co/4hbI9Acmgj

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 16, 2019

In conclusion, he said those factors made it sound absurd when the Pakistani leaders had talked about respect for human rights.