No Terror Bases Here…’: Shashi Tharoor On Asymmetry Of India-Pak Conflict

New Delhi:

Shashi Tharoor has pointed out Pakistan’s indiscriminate shelling on civilian areas in India during the recent conflict as a big example of the “asymmetry of this particular conflict” since India’s objective was to strike only at terror infrastructure in the neighbouring country.

The Pakistani military, however, targeted civilian areas in India because “there are no terror bases in India to hit”, Mr Tharoor told an audience which included former US Ambassador to India Kenneth I Juster.

Mr Tharoor, who is the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, made the comments during an interaction in the US where he led a multi-party delegation of MPs as part of India’s global diplomatic outreach after Operation Sindoor.

“… All I can say is that the world of warfare has been changing dramatically since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, and increasingly the use of drones, for example. It’s striking that neither country [India and Pakistan] actually crossed over into the other’s airspace at any stage of these four days [of the conflict]. Everything is being done from a distance now. Drones, missiles, technologies have moved quite significantly,” Mr Tharoor said at a discussion hosted by the think tank Council on Foreign Relations.