Always had faith in Indian Army: Pahalgam attack victim's wife on Op Sindoor

India Today

In an interview with India Today, Aishwarya, a relative of terror victim Shubham Devedi, speaks on the aftermath of 'Operation Sindoor'. She expresses pride in the Indian Army for its response to terror camps in Pakistan, including those in Muridganj and Bahawalpur. Aishwarya makes a direct appeal to boycott all cricketing ties with Pakistan, stating, "You should boycott anything from Pakistan. And if they don't do it, it's a disrespect for these 26 people." She asserts that playing against Pakistan is an affront to the victims of terrorism. In a message to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she requests stronger action against terrorism and seeks respect and justice for the 26 people who lost their lives. She also criticises the politicisation of the issue and describes Pakistan as a nation of 'cowards' for targeting innocent people.

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00:00As the government and the opposition get set to discuss the Pehelgaam terror attack and Operation Sindur,

00:09the victims, the families, they are looking at how India responds to Pakistan and the world when it comes to that terror attack.

00:20Shubham Dvivedi was a 31-year-old businessman from Kanpur.

00:24He'd been married to Aishanya Dvivedi on the 12th of February this year.

00:29And Shubham was sadly shot dead by these terrorists in Pehelgaam.

00:34The couple were in Kashmir, along with nine family members.

00:38This was a week-long holiday.

00:40They'd visited Sonmarg, they'd visited Gulmarg and then they reached Pehelgaam.

00:45And Aishanya had recounted how they sought help from locals in Kashmir,

00:50asking them to escort her elderly parents to safety.

00:54But they refused.

00:55They said, we are not your horsemen.

00:59And they did not help.

01:01Aishanya Dvivedi now joins me on this special broadcast.

01:05And Aishanya, thank you very much for speaking to India today.

01:09When this debate happens in Parliament,

01:12what is it that you would want our members of Parliament to discuss

01:18when it comes to the Pehelgaam terror attack and Operation Sindhoor?

01:23Are there questions in your mind, Aishanya?

01:25The first question is what they are doing and what they will do about the terrorists.

01:34Because it is something which is eating India, eating the world.

01:39And it's growing like something.

01:42It's growing every day.

01:44It's growing in every corner of the world.

01:47And we need to come together to do something about it.

01:49First is that.

01:51And the second, what are they doing about the 26 people?

01:54As you also know, as I have been telling it out loud everywhere,

01:58that I want a martyr, martyr symbol for him.

02:05But here I request that, and I also am waiting for the day,

02:10they'll give some respect.

02:12They'll honor the 26 people.

02:14They honor these 26 men who died.

02:17They honor these 26 Indian, these 26 Hindus who actually died due to this terrorist attack.

02:27And third, they should do something against Pakistan.

02:30Pakistan, now it's high time Pakistan should stop anything against India.

02:36They should be scared as hell to do anything,

02:40to even think about anything doing against India.

02:44They should do something like that.

02:45But when you have a former home minister of India,

02:49when he says, where is proof that this was Pakistan?

02:54It could be homegrown terrorists.

02:56Or when some congress leader says,

02:58were terrorists airdropped?

02:59Were they airlifted?

03:00What does that mean in your mind?

03:03Are we giving a clean chit to Pakistan?

03:06Are some people in our country giving a clean chit to Pakistan?

03:10I don't know why.

03:12When it comes to terrorists, everybody say it's Pakistan.

03:15But there are few people in our own country.

03:19I don't want to say that it's political things.

03:22It's this or that.

03:23Coming down, it's India.

03:25It's one nation thing.

03:27If somebody is doing this, saying we...

03:31They asked that there.

03:32Are you Hindu?

03:32Are you Muslim?

03:34They did that.

03:35And also, there are few Pakistan terrorist camps.

03:40I don't actually know the right names.

03:43They are taking the responsibility of this.

03:46Still, there are few people in India who are saying,

03:48it's not Pakistan.

03:49Give a proof.

03:50When this will happen with them,

03:52I think then they will get the proof.

03:54I think then they will understand,

03:56yeah, it is a terrorist attack

03:58and it has been done by Pakistan.

04:01Does it hurt you?

04:02Waiting for this to happen.

04:03It hurts.

04:04It hurts like something.

04:05When somebody says,

04:07how can somebody from their own country do this?

04:10No.

04:11It's them.

04:12It's Pakistanis.

04:13They are doing it.

04:14Terrorism means Pakistan.

04:18You're absolutely right.

04:20Terrorism means Pakistan.

04:22And India is a victim of terrorism from Pakistan for decades.

04:25It's surprising that we have leaders who...

04:27And still people come and say this.

04:28Still people come and say it.

04:30It's a give proof.

04:32How to give a proof?

04:33This is a big proof.

04:34It's been done to 26 people.

04:36We are speaking it.

04:37It is a proof.

04:39That is true.

04:40You've suffered.

04:41You were there.

04:42You saw what happened to Shubham.

04:45And yet we have people, you know, who speak like that.

04:48Does this then end up helping Pakistan?

04:50Instead of taking hard action against Pakistan,

04:52instead of entire country speaking in one voice,

04:55does India look divided, Aishanya, to you?

04:59Look, right now,

05:00I know that the actual leaders who are standing,

05:04they are the ones who are standing against Pakistan.

05:08The people who are saying these things,

05:09their voice will not even matter.

05:12What kind of a debate would you want in parliament?

05:18What would you want to come out of this parliamentary debate

05:21so that Pakistan knows it dare not attack a country?

05:24Or what is it that you want, Aishanya?

05:27Whatever debate it should be,

05:29it should not be political first,

05:32which I really request.

05:34It is not politics.

05:35It is Indian.

05:36It is us.

05:37It is us, as a nation,

05:39we should stand united.

05:41It is very important to realize

05:43that the 26 people died there.

05:45These 26 people are martyr.

05:48They need to understand.

05:49They need to talk about this.

05:50They need to talk about the respect

05:52they want to give to these 26 people.

05:55We as a family are sitting at our home

05:57with all the hopes

05:59that they will give some respect.

06:00They will come out and say,

06:02yes, we respect these 26 people

06:04and this, this, this,

06:05we are doing for them.

06:08And when this happened on the 22nd of April

06:11and then when the Indian armed forces,

06:14they went and hit nine terror training camps,

06:17including at Bahawalpur and Mureed K.

06:20I am sure you were watching it on television.

06:22I am sure you heard of it.

06:23What went through your mind and heart

06:25that time, Aisha, Nia?

06:27I have always, always had faith in Indian Army.

06:33Our army is very, very strong.

06:35If they go there,

06:38they can finish Pakistan in seconds.

06:41I have that much trust in our Indian Army.

06:43What they did,

06:44they were very much devastated

06:47after the incident.

06:49I even had word with two, three army members

06:52right after the incident.

06:53They were so angry.

06:55They were so angry.

06:57And they did it.

06:58They showed it to us.

07:00They did their part.

07:01Now it's the government.

07:03Now it's the,

07:04it's this nation who needs to do their part.

07:07They need to,

07:08they need to show that,

07:10yes, these 26 lives matter.

07:12They will do something with the,

07:14for the people.

07:15Because now,

07:17what is happening nowadays

07:18is that people forget.

07:20People are forgetting.

07:21Sadly.

07:23And I don't want,

07:24don't want anyone.

07:25Why am I,

07:26I do not have this much courage

07:28that I come up every time

07:29on a camera and talk.

07:31I'm not somebody who speaks.

07:33I'm not somebody who is,

07:34who has been known to this.

07:36But I'm coming,

07:37because I don't want people to forget this.

07:39I don't want people to forget Pahlgaam.

07:41I don't want people to forget Shubham.

07:44He is a martyr

07:45and a people should say it.

07:47I'm just waiting for the government

07:49to do something.

07:50I'm waiting for the day

07:51to get over with a relax

07:53that, yes,

07:54something good came out of this debate.

07:56Something for the people

07:57came out of this debate.

07:59And when,

08:01you know,

08:01so when we were reporting

08:02Operation Sindur,

08:04first,

08:06it was the targeting

08:06of nine terrorist training camps

08:08including at Muridki and Bahawalpur

08:10and then when Pakistan

08:11tried to hit back,

08:13the targeting of

08:1311 Pakistani air bases

08:15including the use

08:16of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles

08:18or targeting of,

08:20you know,

08:21their main air bases,

08:23Noor Khan,

08:23Raheem Yahr Khan,

08:24Rafiki,

08:26you know,

08:26Mushaf,

08:27Bolari,

08:27in Sindh.

08:30Did that,

08:31in your view,

08:32send across that message

08:34to Pakistan

08:34that India

08:35will hit terror

08:36at source?

08:38It did.

08:39It did.

08:40And the best thing is

08:42I'm really proud

08:44that I'm an Indian.

08:45I'm really proud

08:46that I am home

08:49and there's Indian army

08:51standing there.

08:53They will protect us.

08:54The way they respond

08:56to every single,

08:57every single drone,

08:59every single attack

09:00from Pakistan,

09:02this is how you fight.

09:04This is the way

09:05you should fight,

09:06not by killing

09:07the innocent.

09:08Pakistan,

09:09they are losers.

09:11Actually,

09:11my words,

09:12they are losers.

09:13They do not know

09:14how to do it.

09:15They do not know

09:16that,

09:17in Hindi,

09:19they call Kair.

09:20Kair is Pakistan.

09:22I agree.

09:23That's why

09:24our country

09:26attacks

09:26those people

09:27who are

09:29who are

09:29doing there.

09:31We are

09:31going to go

09:32there,

09:32going to go

09:33there,

09:33going to go

09:33there.

09:34You attack

09:34there,

09:35you attack

09:35and you attack

09:36you.

09:36No big

09:37Kair is not.

09:38If you have to fight,

09:39you fight like this,

09:39come and fight so

09:40you fight like that.

09:41You fight like this.

09:42You fight like that.

09:44They will not know

09:44that they will save it.

09:45They will not know

09:46that Indian army will

09:46leave it.

09:47But today, my question is just that the debate is happening in India, whatever is going to

10:01happen, I don't know, but I am still having a faith that something good will come out

10:07of this.

10:08We are standing, we are standing for martyrs and I want something good to come out of this,

10:24some respect, something.

10:25We as family are waiting.

10:27And when there is a rule, there is a pain?

10:30Or when Pakistan is given clean shit, there is a pain?

10:33It feels bad?

10:34Absolutely sir, why not?

10:37Maybe this has happened with them, that's why they don't understand them.

10:41Maybe they will understand when someone will go to their house.

10:45And I am saying that, sir, because I don't want anyone to become the next Shubham Divedi.

10:50I don't want anyone to know that someone will come back from 26 years.

10:54I don't want that now there will be a terrorist attack in India.

10:58That's why I am saying that.

10:59I don't have any strength in my mind, but my reason is that this terrorism should stop.

11:07What would you do to do again?

11:10Does Pakistan have a threat?

11:11We would have to die again and get to kill that threat?

11:14Sir, this is absolutely not.

11:18But we do strategically, which is the right thing.

11:22We do in India, we understand some things.

11:25We, you and me are a smaller part of it.

11:28The Indian army is a bigger part of it.

11:30They know when to attack, what to do, what strategies they have to make.

11:36And accordingly, they do it.

11:37I am not going to question them.

11:39I am never going to question Indian Army.

11:42They selflessly do it.

11:45So if they have made some decisions about stopping or stopping after stopping, or whatever it is, I am standing with them.

11:52I am standing with Indian Army.

11:54All the armed forces.

11:56They will do.

11:57I have met so many army people.

12:06They don't like it.

12:08They are very angry.

12:11They have that aggression in them that they can finish Pakistan.

12:14They do not like us.

12:17They do not like any Indian going through this.

12:20Do you have a message for Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

12:22I believe you have spoken to him also about Operation Sindur.

12:27Do you have a message?

12:27Yes, sir.

12:29I just want to request two things.

12:32There is no message, just two requests.

12:34First, do something bigger and a bigger picture against terrorism.

12:40And second, I am waiting in my house with a confidence that for these people, for Shubham Devedi, something good will come out of today's debate.

12:51The respect we as family want for Shubham, the respect the nation want for Shubham, the respect the world want for Shubham, these 26 people.

13:01I am waiting.

13:03I am just waiting today.

13:04I hope you do not have to wait much longer.

13:08There are some who say that, you know, we are not playing bilateral cricket with Pakistan.

13:13But if there is a multilateral cricket, Asia Cup, World Cup, we will have to play with Pakistan.

13:21What do you think?

13:23Why do you have to play?

13:24Who has said you have to play?

13:25I mean, are they doing it to you in a gunpoint?

13:29Are they doing it?

13:30We had a gunpoint.

13:33You are not playing cricket at your gunpoint.

13:35You can play.

13:37You should play anything with Pakistan.

13:41And if they don't do it, it's a disrespect for these 26 people.

13:46It's a disrespect for the nation.

13:50I don't think anything comes before the nation.

13:53You cannot play a big-court cricket for Shubham.

13:58What is this?

13:58Playing with our own emotions?

14:01This is wrong.

14:03I've heard this news and I am boycotting this.

14:07And I want every one of you guys to stand up against this.

14:12All the nations should come up and stand against this.

14:15Boycott India-Pakistan match.

14:17They should, in the first hand, they should have also only boycotted it.

14:21They should have taken that stand that we will not play with Pakistan.

14:25They've hurt us.

14:27We don't want to do anything with them.

14:29And in cricket, we have so much power that we should actually have Pakistan out of ICC.

14:34At least that should be India's effort.

14:36You should try to do it in your view?

14:38Exactly, sir.

14:40Exactly.

14:40You should try to do it in your view.

14:41You should try to do it in your view.

14:46Right?

14:47You should try to do it in your view.

14:48What you have done in your view?

14:48I don't know what will it's it's very very hurtful it's very hurtful

15:18Aishanya you joined me on India today and I I'm very grateful to you for speaking to us here

15:27and I know it's very tough but I know you're fighting for a bigger cause you're fighting

15:32to ensure that we Indians are safe from Pakistan state-sponsored radical Islamist terror

15:38thank you very much Aishanya for joining me here thank you thank you so much on India today

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