00:00This is, as I said, further to the briefing that was provided yesterday and some of the
00:07updates that have been just provided by Colonel Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh.
00:15I thought that we would just put some of the aspects related to the events that started
00:25on 22nd April with the barbaric terror attack in Pahalgam into further context because there
00:35is a certain amount of commentary that has happened with regard to the events since then.
00:40And more than the commentary, there has been a lot of disinformation that has been directed
00:46at us from across the border.
00:51So a few things that I would like you to keep in mind.
00:59First of all, there is mention on all sides of escalation.
01:08I think the first point that you have to keep in mind is the attack of 22nd April in Pahalgam
01:16is the original escalation.
01:23Secondly, I want to invite your attention to the involvement of the group calling itself
01:30the resistance front in these attacks.
01:37the resistance front in these attacks.
01:38I pointed this out yesterday that this is a group that is a known front for the well-known
01:44Pakistan-based terrorist organization.
01:45attention to the involvement of the group calling itself the resistance front in these attacks
01:56i pointed this out yesterday that this is a group that is a known front for the well-known
02:05pakistan-based terrorist organization lashkar-e-taiba the group has been reported earlier i mentioned
02:15to you about the indian authorities providing information to the u.n 1267 sanctions monitoring
02:25committee and in fact we are going to be meeting with the team again very soon and we will be
02:33providing an update to the information that we have provided earlier but what is interesting
02:41the just part of it is that when in the administration of the administration
02:46when they were talking about a press
02:49this was after the fact that the trs claimed responsibility for this attack not once but twice
03:10within a few hours after the incident on the 22nd of april and then again on the morning of 23rd april
03:19and it is perhaps only after the full gravity of the incident was realized by its masters and
03:25handlers across the border that it was managed to back off from this claim obviously that retraction
03:33doesn't convince anybody
03:39the third thing which i wanted to say was that colonel qureshi and wing commander singh
03:48we are only responding to the original escalation as i said
04:01It is non-escalatory, precise, strategic, measured, and considered.
04:08Our intention has not been to escalate matters.
04:14We are only responding to the original escalation, as I said.
04:18And our response has been targeted, precise, controlled, and measured.
04:23Only military, no military targets have been selected.
04:28Only terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan has been hit.
04:35Now, there are, as I said, a number of issues that have been raised in commentaries.
04:48And there's a lot of, as I said, unfounded disinformation and fabrication that has come from across the border.
04:58And I would just like to use this opportunity to set the record straight on some of these issues.
05:06The first of these is Pakistan trying to wash its hands off any and all involvement with terrorism.
05:18I think the Pakistani information minister said there are no terrorists in Pakistan.
05:22And I think he was challenged on that in the television program that he was appearing on.
05:29But even if I partially repeat myself from yesterday, I think Pakistan's reputation as the epicenter of global terrorism is rooted in a number of instances
05:47where concrete evidence, where concrete evidence is available, not just to India, but to governments and authorities and agencies around the world.
05:56There are several terrorist attacks around the world where Pakistani fingerprints have been found.
06:03I don't need to belabor the point with regard to this audience about where Osama bin Laden was found and who called him a martyr.
06:17Pakistan has also for decades pursued cross-border terrorism into India with impunity.
06:26And in, as I said yesterday also, in order to deliberately mislead the international community,
06:35they claimed that the terrorist Sajid Meir was dead.
06:39They came under pressure and Sajid Meir was then brought back to life, arrested, and is now apparently in Pakistani custody.
06:49Pakistan is also home to a very large number of UN-proscribed terrorists, as well as terrorists proscribed by a number of other governments in the world,
07:02including, of course, the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jais-e-Mohammad, as well as their leaders, Masood Azhar and Hafiz Mohamed Saeed.
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