India Can Talk To Pakistan If It Takes Significant Action Against Terrorism: Tharoor

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Congress MP Tharoor, who is leading an all-party parliamentary delegation to Brazil, said his team successfully conveyed India’s message against terrorism to Latin American countries.

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00:00I think honestly BRICS has a different agenda I'm not saying that they may not

00:06want to express solidarity I mean that's really not my brief because BRICS will

00:11have a whole delegation coming for BRICS and the invitations are at the

00:15highest level and whoever comes from the government will undoubtedly do their

00:18very best I think to ensure that there is a solid constructive outcome whether

00:23that will include what you're suggesting in terms of a statement about the

00:27terrorist attack I don't know and I don't even know if it's in the draft

00:31they're working on already as far as the other issues you're concerned you know

00:37international forums are not our preoccupation our preoccupation is

00:41honestly our bilateral relationship with Pakistan and Pakistan's complete failure

00:46to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism in their country this is what

00:52we keep telling our interlocutors if Pakistan is as innocent as they claim to

00:56be why why do they give safe haven to wanted terrorists who are listed on the

01:01designated terrorists by the US government who are on the United Nations

01:041267 committee's wanted list these are people and organizations whose names are

01:10known why do they enjoy safe haven in Pakistan why are they able to live

01:15peacefully to conduct training camps to educate people and radicalize further

01:19people to equip arms and get people to practice their arms and kalashnikovs and so

01:23on on Pakistani soil it is not really a question that the international community

01:28can do much with we have to say to Pakistan we've been saying to Pakistan you get

01:32your act together you crack down on this infrastructure of terrorism that is

01:38visible everywhere in your country then of course we can talk we have so many

01:42languages in common with the Pakistanis we can talk to them in Hindustani we can

01:46talk to them in in Punjabi we can talk to them in English there's no problem in

01:51finding common languages of Pakistan the problem is finding a common vision for

01:55decency for peace we want to be left in peace to grow and develop they don't want

01:59to leave us alone they want to harass us they won't undermine us they want to cut us

02:03this whole bleeding to death India by thousand cuts we're not going to bleed to

02:07death so easily they better forget that idea but I understand you're in an

02:12international trip so it the way the other countries such a Brazil Colombia just been to

02:16Colombia do you feel that the mission was accomplished in Colombia they fully

02:21retracted their statement you know for the Pakistani after the attacks do you

02:27feel that the South America is giving you that you know international

02:31recognition that terrorism is unacceptable absolutely and this has been very

02:35clear and all the countries we've been to Brazil is the fourth country and I

02:39would say in all four countries we've had a very very clear success if that's the

02:43word I don't like to boast of success that's for others to judge but we have

02:47got our message through very clearly including to those who may have had

02:51some misunderstandings and as a result of getting our message through we have

02:55certainly been able in my view to come back feeling that these countries

03:01understand our situation better and express full solidarity with our struggle

03:06against terrorism which is the main purpose of our trip so are you going to

03:09Washington DC which is not a stop it's not a hub it's it's a very important place to

03:15get the message across what is your what are your expectations going in Washington DC for

03:21your next leg of the trip I think my expectations are that it's going to be a

03:25challenging visit we have a lot of a lot of different kinds of audiences we're

03:32addressing we'll be addressing government officials will be addressing senators and

03:37congressmen on the hill we'll be addressing a lot of media we'll be

03:40addressing a lot of think tanks that specialize in international questions so

03:44there's quite a cross-section of people we'll be seeing and talking to and I am

03:49sure judging by some of the information floating around flying around we'll get

03:53some interesting and perhaps challenging questions which we'll be very happy to

03:57answer that's why we're going

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