‘Completely legal under international law’: Congress MP Manish Tewari hails ‘Operation Sindoor’

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New Delhi, May 8, 2025 (ANI): While speaking on the Operation Sindoor, Congress MP Manish Tewari hailed the Indian Armed Forces and said that the ‘Operation Sindoor’ is completely legal under international law. He said, “The action taken by the Indian Army and Air Force on the night of May 6-7 was completely legal under international law... Pakistan has tried to make the situation more sensitive and Pakistan should understand that it is known across the world as a nation that promotes terrorism... Whatever action the Indian Army takes, the entire country will stand with them.”

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00:00First and foremost, India's actions on the intervening night of the 6th and 7th May 2025

00:08were absolutely consistent with public international law.

00:14Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations gives every nation the right to take action,

00:24pre-emptive or post-emptive, in its self-defense.

00:28What India carried out were actions against terrorist organizations and terror camps,

00:38which have been consistently and systematically targeting India over quite a period of time.

00:46So therefore, whatever India did in the exercise of its rise to national defense

00:54was absolutely consistent with public international law.

01:02Pakistan's response, on the other hand, is clearly escalatory.

01:07Attempts to try and target a spectrum of military establishments across the north and west of India

01:17is absolutely unacceptable.

01:21Pakistan has to understand that it is a state which is regarded as a sponsor of terror,

01:30not now, but going back many decades.

01:33It is the country which harbored Osama bin Laden while sucking in aid from the United States of America

01:43in the name of the war on terror.

01:46And therefore, under those circumstances, any escalatory steps by Pakistan

01:52would definitely be met by an equal and proportionate response by the government of India.

01:59And so therefore, it is in Pakistan's interest to hand over all those terrorists

02:06who have been targeting India over a period of time,

02:11whose lists have been supplied to Pakistan, so that they can be brought to justice.

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