"Thanks to India's foreign diplomacy, TRF is jow a Us-designated global terror body" - Jaishankar :::: "There was no call between PM Modi and Trump on Ceasefire"

"When the Security Council was debating this matter on April 25, the TRF had by then twice claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack. Pakistan came to the defence of the TRF. Pakistan tried to have any mention of the TRF excluded from the discussions. 

In fact, the Pakistani Foreign Minister even told his Parliament that it (exclusion) was a great diplomatic achievement," External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar said in Lok Sabha intervening in the discussion on Operation Sindoor. 

"Thanks to our foreign diplomacy, the TRF has been designated as a global terrorist organisation by the US. And the very same Pakistani Foreign Minister, who took so much pride in defending the TRF, is now saying, 'Well, if the US has done this, we accept it'," he added.

Jaishankar said 3 of 190 countries opposed India's Operation Sindoor

Jaishankar also said : India won't resume Indus Waters Treaty till Pak stopped backing terrorism

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday, July 28th, cited India's major diplomatic victories, including the extradition of the 26/11 attacks plotter Tahawwur Rana to India and the designation of The Resistance Front (TRF) - behind April's Pahalgam attack - as a terror group.

Speaking during the Operation Sindoor debate in the Lok Sabha, Jaishankar slammed the Opposition, saying those who believed that inaction was the best response after the 26/11 terror attacks were questioning why Operation Sindoor was stopped.  Jaishankar asserted that at no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage of trade with Operation Sindoor and the request for halting the military action came from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel.

"I want to make two things very clear. At no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage with trade and what was going on. Secondly, there was no call between the Prime Minister and President (Donald) Trump from April 22. When President Trump called up to convey his sympathy, till June 17, when he called up, the PM, who was in Canada, explained why he could not meet him," he said.

Jaishankar also said the result of India's diplomacy following the Pahalgam attack was that only three out of 190 nations which are part of the UN opposed Operation Sindoor. "There was an overwhelming support that the country which has been attacked has the right to defend itself," he said.

"I want to remind this House that the Doklam crisis was on. The Leader of Opposition decided to get a briefing not from the government, not from the MEA, but from the Chinese ambassador," Jaishankar said. 

He took his briefing from the Chinese ambassador when our military was confronting the Chinese military in Doklam...," says EAM Dr S Jaishankar during the discussion on Operation Sindoor. 

"I want to make two things very clear ... at no stage in any conversation with the United States.....there was any linkage with trade and what was going on. 

Secondly, there was no call between the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) and President Donald Trump from April 22 when Pahalgam called up to share his sympathy and June 17 when he called up Prime Minister in Canada to explain why he could not meet". 

He also criticised Congress for hyphenating India and Pakistan and said it's another matter the US or Russia is doing so, but ... "you yourself is hypheneating".  In this context he referred to the performance of previous Congress governments including the one headed by Dr Manmohan Singh. 

 On Opposition query why the Operation Sindoor was paused and India did not further, Dr Jaishankar said - 

"Please see who is asking this question.... 

This question is being asked by people who after 26/11, felt the action was inaction...". 

Quoting from a book by a former NSA (under UPA government), Dr Jaishankar said - "After 26/11 .... he (the writer/former NSA) said -on sober reflection in hindsight I now believe the decision not to retaliate militarily but concentrate diplomatic (steps) was the right one... 

But did he even do that ... because 26/11 happened on Nov 26, 2008; what was their reaction. The reaction was Sharm El-Sheikh (a city in Egypt where Manmohan Singh Govt allegedly bowed to Pakistani pursuaion)". 

Dr Jaishankar further said -- Was it dilomatic, was it covert ... was it military. In Sharm El-Sheikh the then Govt (of Dr Singh) and the Pak PM agreed that terrorism is a main threat to both the countries. 

"Today people are saying US is hyphenating, Russia is hyphenating (India and Pakistan) ..... you are hyphenating yourself." 

"You did not need a foreign country to say please link... India to Pakistan. Your own government was saying terrorism is a main threat to both the countries. And then they said, terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue".  

"And worst of all ... a reference was made to Baluchistan". 

Talking about the government's diplomatic offensive against Pakistan, Jaishankar said the Cabinet Committee on Security had decided that the Indus Waters Treaty would be paused until Islamabad stopped its support for terrorism.

"On May 10, we received phone calls sharing the impression of other countries that Pakistan was ready to cease the fighting. Our position was that if Pakistan was ready, we needed to get this as a request from the Pakistani side through the DGMO channel. That is exactly how that request came," he said.

Jaishankar's remarks came after Congress' Deputy Leader in the House Gaurav Gogoi slammed the government over Trump's claim, made "26 times", that he used trade to bring about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.  

"When Operation Sindoor was launched, we put out our objectives that it was hitting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. Our actions were focussed, measured and non-escalatory and we were living up to the commitment that those responsible for those attacks will be held responsible," he said.