All-Party Delegation Meets UKs Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel, Shares Indias Firm Resolve In Combating Cross-Border Terrorism

An all-party Indian parliamentary delegation, led via Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, held a gathering with the United Kingdom’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel and her workforce on Sunday to percentage India’s company unravel in countering cross-border terrorism. The Members of Parliament mentioned how Operation Sindoor exemplifies the brand new standard set via India within the counter-terrorism effort.

In a publish on X, the Indian High Commission in the United Kingdom mentioned, “The All-Party Parliamentary Delegation met with Shadow Foreign Secretary @pritipatel and her team to share India’s firm resolve in combating cross-border terrorism. They also highlighted how #OperationSindoor exemplifies the new normal set by India in this ongoing effort.”

The Indian delegation, led via Ravi Shankar Prasad, contains BJP MP Daggubati Purandeswari, Samik Bhattacharya, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress MPs Ghulam Ali Khatana and Amar Singh, former Union Minister MJ Akbar, and previous Ambassador Pankaj Saran.

Earlier, the all-party delegation interacted with the Indian diaspora at India House in London. During the interplay, the Members of Parliament reaffirmed India’s united stance and unwavering dedication to preventing terrorism in all its bureaucracy.

“The All Party Delegation of MPs interacted with representatives of the large and diverse Indian Diaspora at India House in London today. They reaffirmed India’s united stance and unwavering commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms, and underlined the readiness of India to continue to decisively punish any and all acts of terror,” the Indian High Commission in the United Kingdom posted on X.

While interacting with the Indian diaspora in London, Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned that Pakistan isn’t a “democratic country” and added that Pakistan’s militia have made the rustic for themselves and are “unelectable and unaccountable.” Highlighting the instance of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir, whom he mentioned used to be “defeated in the field” however promoted to Field Marshal, Prasad drew parallels with former army rulers like Ayub Khan.

Prasad mentioned, “What is the problem of Pakistan? The problem with Pakistan is that it is not a democratic country. ‘Muhammad Ali Jinnah ne banaya Pakistan, wo ban gaya Generals ki dukaan, that is the situation of Pakistan. The second thing, very important, is people, leaders make the country. There, Pakistan armed forces have made a country for themselves, unelectable, not accountable, not popular sanction, but they seized power. Ayub Khan field marshal for 10 years. Mr Yahya Khan for seven and a half years, Mr Zia ul Haq for eleven years, General Musharraf for nine years.”

“Now you have Munir, General, who was defeated in the field but became a field marshal. That is the whole scenario. The Prime Minister said, enough is enough. On the 7th of May, Indian forces made a decisive blow against only the terrorist outfit, Bahawalpur, Muridke, Muzaffarabad, 100 terrorists were killed. Remember this attack was unleashed at the dead of night around 1:30 for 20 minutes only, and no civilian casualties were there. In the morning, we informed the Pakistani establishment, raat mein aapki pitai ki hai, lekin khali terrorist camp ko hi pita hai (You were beaten up at night, but only terrorist camps were targeted), okay, no citizen has been touched at all. They did not respond. They attacked our skies, the cities through missiles. And I want you to salute our air force and armed forces. They completely blocked all the missiles, completely paralysed them,” he added.

Ravi Shankar Prasad discussed how 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden used to be stuck in Pakistan. He mentioned that the terrorists who hijacked the airplane to rescue Masood Azhar were killed and Masood Azhar’s members of the family have been additionally killed via the Indian Armed Forces below Operation Sindoor.

As many as 26 other folks have been killed and several other others have been injured within the terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22. Indian Armed Forces introduced Operation Sindoor on May 7 as a decisive army reaction to the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault via Pakistan-sponsored terrorists. Indian Armed Forces focused terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, resulting in the dying of over 100 terrorists affiliated with terror outfits just like the Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen.