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Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is set to brief Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs about the ongoing situation with Pakistan next week on Monday, May 19.

The committee's chairman and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor told news agency PTI that Misri will brief the panel on the developments regarding the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, especially India’s strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and the intense military exchanges that followed before both sides agreed to de-escalate.  

Misri has been regularly updating the committee on various foreign affairs matters, including India’s relations with neighbours like Bangladesh and countries like Canada.

Tharoor's 4-Point Objection To Trump's Comments On India-Pak Tensions

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday expressed his objection to US President Donald Trump's claim that the ceasefire between India and Pakistan was brokered with the help of his adminsitration. He called the remarks "disappointing" for India, mentioning four points to support his claim. 

Tharoor criticised Trump's portrayal of the events as a US-led de-escalation. "First," he said, "it implies a false equivalence between the victim and the perpetrator and overlooks the US' past stance against Pakistan's well-documented support for cross-border terrorism."

Second, Tharoor said, "it offers Pakistan a negotiating framework which it certainly has not earned." "India will never negotiate with a terrorist gun pointed at its head," he said.

Third, the Congress MP said that Trump's statement "internationalises" the Kashmir dispute, which is an idea India has rejected. "India rejects the idea of a dispute and sees the problem as an internal affair of India’s. India has never requested, not is likely to seek, any foreign country’s mediation over its problems with Pakistan," he wrote on X. 

Lastly, Tharoor said that Trump's remarks "re-hyphenates" India and Pakistan in the global discourse. "For decades now, world leaders had been encouraged not to club their visits to India with visits to Pakistan, and starting with President Clinton in 2000, no US President had done so. This is a major backward step," he added.