“Pak needs to be exposed…” Congress leader Anand Sharma hails Centre’s anti-terror delegation move

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New Delhi, May 22, 2025 (ANI): Congress leader Anand Sharma hailed Centre’s anti-terror delegation move. He also stressed that “Pakistan has nurtured terror outfits” and that it has to get “exposed”. "It is India's global outreach to inform, sensitise and mobilise the world opinion about the grave threat that terrorism poses to India, to this region and to the world as a whole...Pakistan, for long, has been the epicentre of terrorism. The terror outfits are nurtured, funded and sheltered by the state of Pakistan, by their military leadership. So this is something which cannot be allowed to go unchecked... Pakistan needs to be exposed... All political parties, including the Indian National Congress, extended unequivocal support to India's response and the actions that India took” , he said . Congress leader Anand Sharma, who is part of delegation number 7 that will visit Egypt, Qatar, Ethiopia, South Africa to present India's anti-terrorism stance.

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00:00It is India's global outreach to inform, sensitize, and mobilize the world opinion

00:09about the grave threat that terrorism poses to India, to this region, and to the world as a whole.

00:19In the backdrop of the recent dastardly terror attack in Pahlgham,

00:26and the brutal killings of Indian citizens who were singled out because of their religion,

00:34something which had not happened every time and which needs to be condemned.

00:41Though we had the Chittisingpura killings, the Sikhs were murdered again by the terrorists from across the border.

00:51It is equally important for us to tell the leaders of the countries where we go to

00:59that Pakistan for long has been an epicenter of terrorism.

01:08The terror outfits by the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Ashkar-e-Taiba, they are nurtured, funded, and sheltered, protected by the state of Pakistan,

01:24by their military leadership.

01:27So this is something which cannot be allowed to go unchecked.

01:34India has in the past, as in when there have been terror incidents, informed the world.

01:45We have been a targeted victim as a country.

01:52You take the attack on parliament in 2000, then we had Uddhampur, we had Jammu, we had Uri, Poonch, then Pulwama, the Helgaam.

02:06How long will this go on?

02:08There is our resolution, supported by many countries, which is there pending for long as the United Nations,

02:17for the comprehensive global convention against terrorism.

02:26Some forward movement has been there to check terror funding through the FATF and other mechanisms.

02:33But that is not enough.

02:35Much more is required to be done.

02:38Pakistan needs to be exposed.

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