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New Delhi, May 08 2025 9ANI): Following Pakistan’s unprovoked firing in Poonch and Rajouri, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri addressed a press briefing on May 08.
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00:00Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I welcome you to this briefing by Foreign Secretary
00:05Sri Vikram Mishri on the ongoing developments regarding Operation Sindhur. We also have with
00:12us Colonel Sophia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh for this briefing. With that I
00:19hand over the floor to Foreign Secretary. Sir. Thank you Randeel. Good evening. Thank you all
00:26for joining for this briefing. You would have perhaps seen some information related to developments
00:36since late last night or early this morning which has been put out by the Ministry of Defence. Just
00:43in case it has been missed I will request Colonel Sophia Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh to
00:51just update you and fill you in on the details. Thank you Sir.
00:56Operations Sindhur, Pasaad Maii 2025 Khoi Press Conference के दोरान भारत
01:06ने अपनी प्रतिक्रिया को केंद्रित, संतुलित और गैर उतेजग बताया था.
01:11यह विशेश रूप से स्पष्ट किया गया था कि पाकिस्तानी सैन्य ठिकानों को निशाना नहीं बनाया गया.
01:18साथ ही दोहराया गया कि भारत में किसी भी सैन्य लक्ष पर हमले का उच्चित जवाब दिया जाएगा.
01:28साथ से आठ महीं दोहजर पच्चीस की रात को पाकिस्तान ने उतरी और पश्चिमी भारत में इस्चित कई सैन्य ठिकानों को जैसे कि अवंतिपुरा,
01:40श्रीनगर, जम्मू, पठान कोट, अम्रिचसर, कपूर्थला, जालंदर, लुध्याना, आदंपुर, भटिंडा, चंदिगड, नाल, फलौदी, उत्तरलाई और भूजपर, ड्रोन और मिसाइलों से हमला करने का प्रयाज किया.
02:02इन हमलों को इंटीग्रेटेड़ काउंटर-UAS ग्रिद और वायू रक्षा प्रणालियाओं द्वारा निश्क्रिय कर दिया गया.
02:13इन हमलों का मलबा कई स्थानों से बरामद हुआ, जो कि पाकिस्तानी हमलों का प्रमान है.
02:20On the rise of 7th May 25, Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets in northern and western India using drones and missiles.
02:33These places included Avantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapoorthala, Nal, Jalandar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatenda, Chandigarh, Falodi, Uttarlai and Bhuj.
02:51These were neutralized by the integrated counter unmanned aerial system and other air defense systems.
02:58The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks.
03:05आज सुबा, भारतिये सशत्र बलों ने पाकिस्तान के कई स्थानों पर वायू रक्षा रडार और प्रणालियों को निशाना बनाया.
03:17भारत की प्रतिक्रिया समान शेत्र में समान दीवरिता के साथ की गई.
03:23यह विश्वस्निये रूप से ज्यात हुआ कि लाहूर ने स्थित एक वायू रक्षा प्रणाली को निश्क्रिय कर दिया गया.
03:33Today morning, Indian Armed Forces targeted air defense radars and systems at a number of locations in Pakistan.
03:42Indian response has been in the same domain with the same intensity as Pakistan.
03:47It has been reliably learned that an air defense system at Lahore has been neutralized.
03:55Pakistan ने नियनतर रेखा पर आकरन बोली बादी की तीवता बडादी है.
04:01जिसमें कुपवारा, बारामूला, उरी, पुंच, मेंधर और राज़ोरी छेत्रों में
04:10मोटार और भारी तोब खाने का इस्तिमाल किया जा रहा है.
04:16Pakistan has increased the intensity of its unprovoked firing across the line of control
04:22using mortar and heavy calivory artilleries in areas in कुपवारा, बारामूला, उरी, पुंच, मेंधर and राज़ोरी sectors
04:31in Jammu and Kashmir.
04:3316 innocent lives have been lost, including three women and five children, due to the Pakistani firing.
04:41Here too, India was compelled to respond to bring mortar and artillery fire from Pakistan to a halt.
04:48Indian Armed Forces reiterate their commitment to non-escalation, provided it is respected by the Pakistan military.
04:57Jai Hind.
05:11Friends, this is, as I said, further to the briefing that was provided yesterday and some of the updates
05:24that have been just provided by Colonel Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh.
05:31I thought that we would just put some of the aspects related to the events that started on 22nd April
05:43with the barbaric terror attack in Pahalgam into further context because there is a certain amount of commentary
05:52that has happened with regard to the events since then.
05:56And more than the commentary, there has been a lot of disinformation that has been directed at us from across the border.
06:05So, a few things that I would like you to keep in mind.
06:14First of all, there is mention on all sides of escalation.
06:23I think the first point that you have to keep in mind is the attack of 22nd April in Pahalgam is the original escalation.
06:33Secondly, I want to invite your attention.
07:02To the involvement of the group calling itself the resistance front in these attacks.
07:12I pointed this out yesterday that this is a group that is a known front for the well-known Pakistan-based terrorist organization,
07:24Lashkar-e-Taiba.
07:25The group has been reported earlier.
07:31I mentioned to you about the Indian authorities providing information to the UN 1267 Sanctions Monitoring Committee.
07:43And in fact, we are going to be meeting with the team again very soon.
07:49And we will be providing an update to the information that we have provided earlier.
07:54But what is interesting, the impression that was being reported that in the Sanyukh Rajesh,
08:00when we had the attack of the bomb in the front of Pahalgam business,
08:02we were talking about a press for the event of the UN 1210,
08:03and now we are talking about the event,
08:05when we had a press resolution Paragam,
08:07we were talking about which country has been making it to the UN 1220,
08:09and now you think about which country has mentioned as the resistance front,
08:13the resistance front to the UN, which is supposedly that was opposed for the UN,
08:15which was against the UN1.
08:16This was after the fact that the TRS claimed responsibility for this attack, not once, but twice, within a few hours after the incident on the 22nd of April, and then again on the morning of 23rd April.
08:34And it is perhaps only after the full gravity of the incident was realized by its masters and handlers across the border that it was managed to back off from this claim.
08:47Obviously, that retraction doesn't convince anybody.
09:21Our intention has not been to escalate matters.
09:30We are only responding to the original escalation, as I said, and our response has been targeted, precise, controlled and measured.
09:40Only military, no military targets have been selected.
09:45Only terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan has been hit.
09:49Now, there are, as I said, a number of issues that have been raised in commentaries, and there's a lot of, as I said, unfounded disinformation and fabrication that has come from across the border.
10:14And I would just like to use this opportunity to set the record straight on some of these issues.
10:23The first of these is Pakistan trying to wash its hands off any and all involvement with terrorism.
10:34I think the Pakistani information minister said there are no terrorists in Pakistan.
10:38And I think he was challenged on that in the television program that he was appearing on.
10:45But 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 where concrete evidence is available,
11:06not just to India, not just to governments and authorities and agencies around the world, not just to India, but to governments and authorities and agencies around the world.
11:13There are several terrorist attacks around the world where Pakistani fingerprints have been found.
11:20I 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.
11:35Pakistan has also for decades pursued cross-border terrorism into India with impunity.
11:42And as I said yesterday also, in order to deliberately mislead the international community, they claimed that the terrorist Sajid Meir was dead.
11:56They came under pressure and Sajid Meir was then brought back to life, arrested and is now apparently in Pakistani custody.
12:04Pakistan is also home to a very large number of U.N. proscribed as well as U.N. proscribed terrorists as well as terrorists proscribed by a number of other governments in the world,
12:19including, of course, the Lashkar-e-Tayba and the Jais-e-Mohamed as well as their leaders, Masood Azhar and Hafiz Mohamed Saeed.
12:30Pakistan, I think they have done a more eloquent job of this.
13:00than I could ever do in terms of describing their country's implication in international terrorism and their involvement in housing these kinds of groups.
13:12Pakistan, I think you know the history well on this, you know the track record well,
13:17and it is not a bright track record insofar as Pakistan is concerned.
13:21Pakistan, I think you know the history well on this, you know the track record well, and it is not a bright track record insofar as Pakistan is concerned.
13:33In fact, in the pursuit of justice for the victims of multiple terrorist attacks, whether it be Mumbai in 2008, in Patankot in 2016, or many others.
13:51But in particular for these two attacks, India had offered to cooperate, India provided forensic evidence, and urged Pakistan to bring the perpetrators of these attacks to Japan.
14:09We, in particular with regard to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, where a Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist was captured alive, India provided extensive information and evidence related to the involvement of the
14:16Pakistani terrorists in Pakistan.
14:17India provided extensive reports of Pakistan and Pakistan.
14:19India provided extensive information and evidence related to the involvement of Pakistan terrorists in this attack.
14:23Cases were registered, but you are all aware that these cases have not progressed, despite the formation of judicial teams,
14:30which were registered.
14:31In particular with regard to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, where a Pakistani Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist was captured alive.
14:34India provided extensive information and evidence related to the involvement of Pakistani terrorists in this attack.
14:43Cases were registered, but you are all aware that these cases have not progressed, despite the formation of judicial teams.
14:52And Pakistan has consistently stonewalled all efforts to move the investigation along.
14:59In fact, with regard to the Bhatankot attack as well, a joint investigative team was formed.
15:08We gave access, unprecedented access, I should say, to Pakistani team to the site of the attack.
15:18Details of all records data and DNA, etc. were shared with Pakistan.
15:27We had shared with them details related that we had been able to access to the addresses of terrorists.
15:36We presented evidence against the office bearers of Jaish-e-Mohammad, who had conspired in the attack,
15:45and the handlers of the terrorists who facilitated them and guided them in.
15:51But there has been no movement on this.
15:56So, in all of this, I think the experience has not been positive.
16:03And it certainly doesn't give us the confidence now to take at face value Pakistani assertions of wishing to participate in a joint investigation.
16:14These are just delaying tactics.
16:16These are just stonewalling tactics.
16:18And in fact, there is reason to believe that Pakistan uses the evidence that we provide only to cover its tracks and in fact defend the terrorists who we are looking for and obstruct the path of investigation.
16:41A third point that I wanted to address was the claim that only civilians were killed in the strikes on the 7th of May.
17:00We have made the point very clearly that all attacks on the morning of 7th May were against carefully selected terrorist infrastructure, terrorist targets.
17:17It is not clear to us.
17:22In fact, seeing some of the coverage of the after effects of these strikes, including the funerals for the terrorists that were held yesterday, I think a lot of you have seen the reports and the coverage on media.
17:43If only civilians, if any civilians were killed in these attacks, I wonder what message this picture actually sends to all of you.
17:54This is a question that is worth asking.
17:58It is also odd that the funerals of civilians are carried out with the coffins being draped in Pakistani flags and state honours being accorded.
18:15As far as we are concerned, the individuals eliminated at these facilities were terrorists.
18:23Giving terrorist state funerals may be a practice in Pakistan.
18:27It does not seem to make much sense to us.
18:30Pakistan has also claimed that India deliberately attacked religious sites.
18:41This is completely false.
18:44Again, I have made it clear that the targets were terrorist infrastructure, terrorist facilities and locations connected clearly with incidents of cross-border terrorism.
18:59And it is, in fact, Pakistan that is misusing religious sites as a cover to, in fact, radicalise, direct and indoctrinate and train terrorists.
19:15In fact, contrary to what Pakistan is claiming, yesterday, Pakistan launched a targeted attack on the Sikh community in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, hitting Gurdwara in Punsh and the homes of Sikh community members, which came under attack.
19:36And we know that at least three individuals were killed in that particular attack.
19:48Pakistan is also making attempts to, in fact, just to add to this point, the retaliatory action that Pakistan has taken, in fact, is important.
20:05Pakistan is impacting civilians.
20:08I showed you the picture of the Gurdwara and the Sikh community members who were killed in this.
20:19There are other civilians also who have been killed and injured in these attacks.
20:25In fact, since yesterday morning, a total of 16 civilians have been killed and 59 others have been injured in the attacks by Pakistan.
20:39Not only this, Pakistan is also making attempts as part of its disinformation campaign to paint our action with regard to cross-border terrorism through the communal angle.
20:54If that is the issue, then I think I can do no better than to cite or point you in the direction of the Pakistan Army Chief's speech of 16 April 2025.
21:13I think that is the last word in communal rhetoric.
21:20And in the Pahalgam attack itself, you are aware of the kind of religious profiling that was done there.
21:30And perhaps there is a linkage between these two events.
21:35I can only say that these nefarious designs will not be allowed to succeed in India.
21:45And it is to be noted that people from all faiths, all religions, all regions in India have unequivocally, not just in India but around the world, have condemned these attacks.
22:00The Pakistani claims of now responding to India's strikes of the 7th of May.
22:17As I said right at the outset, it is India which is responding.
22:21The original escalation was by Pakistan on the 22nd of April.
22:25We are the ones who are responding to that escalation with the action that was taken yesterday morning.
22:31And again, I would like to emphasize that the action was restrained.
22:37It was directed towards non-civilian, non-military targets and confined to terrorist camps.
22:44And again, as we have been saying since yesterday, any further action by Pakistan, some of which we are seeing today, is nothing but escalation by Pakistan now once again and will be responded to and is being responded to appropriately.
23:03One point that I wanted to also address was the allegations to the targeting of a dam, the Neelam Jelam project in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
23:22I want to say that this is an absolute and complete fabrication and a blatant lie.
23:29India has targeted only and only terrorist infrastructure and the details of that terrorist infrastructure together with the locations were shared with you yesterday by Colonel Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh.
23:48I should note that if this kind of claim is a pretext for targeting Indian infrastructure of a similar nature, Pakistan will be entirely responsible for the consequences that will undoubtedly follow.
24:07Finally, I want to address some issues that have been raised related to the Indus Waters Treaty and the disinformation that has been raised in regard to that as well.
24:33The fact is that there have been fundamental changes in the circumstances in which the Indus Waters Treaty was concluded and they require, they call for a reassessment of the obligations under the treaty.
24:56Over the last year and a half to two years, India has been in communication with the government of Pakistan.
25:06We have sent several notices to them requesting for negotiations to discuss modification of the treaty.
25:18India has for six plus decades now honoured the treaty even during periods when Pakistan imposed multiple wars on us and even when relations were adversarial.
25:35Pakistan is the one that has been acting in violation of the treaty deliberately creating legal roadblocks in India exercising its legitimate rights on the western rivers.
25:51Any projects that India sought to build on the eastern rivers and even on the western rivers which we are allowed to by the treaty were always challenged by Pakistan thereby hampering our rights to utilise our legitimate waters under the treaty.
26:13In fact, if you see the preamble of the treaty itself states that the treaty was concluded in a spirit of goodwill and friendship.
26:23Mark those words, concluded in a spirit of goodwill and friendship.
26:27Yeh bharat ka dhariya aur bharat ki sehnshilta hai jo 65 saal se hum itni provocation ke baavjood its treaty ko nibha raha hai hai.
26:41However, as has been made clear earlier as well, Pakistan has not responded to our requests to enter into negotiations for a reassessment of the obligations under the treaty.
26:56A number of conditions have changed.
26:58A number of conditions have changed.
26:59This is a treaty that was based on the engineering techniques of the 50s and the 60s.
27:03We are living through the first quarter of the 21st century.
27:08Technological changes and technological advancements have to be taken into account.
27:13There are demographic changes.
27:15There are when Kashmir itself has hampered India's ability to exercise its rights under the treaty.
27:24Were there people want to get into account for them?
27:25If you would like to be known as a customer, do you have a truth contributor to the Otero?
27:28Do you have a truth?
27:29There are people who make us understand the situation that we want to be aware of those problems who have made us understand.
27:30To be aware of those things, you think the content of the nature of our safety is never going to be aware of them.
27:33We are living through the state by damning and we are living in the same hotel.
27:35We are living through the state by the Nazar, we have everything that we could use to offer.
27:37We are living through a thousand years after the peaceful Yin part to theian part.
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