Reach out was important
The union government’s decision to send all-party parliamentary delegations to several countries has come at a right time. The delegation comprising of parliamentarians from all major political parties representing various regions of the country have a huge task at hand.
It is an all-party effort and the government is just putting the right people together to fight a thought process that needs to be curbed at all costs because the way our neighbouring country is behaving is proving to be a costly affair for us always.
Importantly, the government is planning to send special envoys to foreign countries to make a case about how India is united and what it suffered as a result of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
The government is putting together separate groups, mainly drawing from parliamentary standing committees to begin with, who can effectively portray that India is united after coming under attack from Pakistan-sponsored terrorist organisations.
To begin with the group will head to Europe and Gulf countries. This is, in part, also to effectively communicate that India was attacked first, and it pushed back and gave a retaliatory response as it carried out strikes at nine terror locations across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The exercise is not new as the ways our neighbouring country is behaving such moves have been compelled to have been initiated even in the past. Such exercises have taken place in 1994 and again in 2008, after the attacks on India from Pakistan-sponsored terrorist groups and networks.
Importantly, the delegations that have been tasked to establish a reach out need to impress on the world leaders and groups to explain New Delhi’s position on terrorism emanating from Pakistan, giving details of the Pahalgam terror attack and other acts of terror committed against India, Operation Sindoor, and the diplomatic initiatives taken by the government against Pakistan.
The acts of terror and unwarranted interference by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere, has been going on for more than three decades now. Earlier as well hundreds of lives have been lost and the region has had to face lot of destruction and sufferings for quite long.
The recent standoff following the Pahalgam terror act had gone so aggressive that it seemed that a deadly conflict is in the offing. Though, this time around better sense prevailed and the conflict was curtailed before it could go out of hand.
However, during this short period as well-thousands of people in Jammu and Kashmir had to witnesses’ displacement and destruction of their properties. Even the armed personnel and the civilian population had to bear loss of lives as well. Besides, an air of uncertainty engulfed the region and the forbidding old days of cross border shelling and destruction became a reality once again.
All this needs to be put to an end to, and for this the central government needs to act quite diligently so as to create an atmosphere where Pakistan is isolated across the world and actions against it for promoting terror and unrest are further strengthened.
