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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
India says defence gathering in China unable to adopt joint statement
NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in China were unable to adopt a joint statement at the end of their talks due to a lack of consensus on referring to "terrorism", the Indian foreign ministry said on Thursday. SCO is a 10-nation Eurasian security and political grouping whose members include China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran. Their defence ministers' meeting was held as a precursor to the annual summit of its leaders set for the autumn. "Certain members, member countries, could not reach consensus on certain issues and hence the document could not be finalised on our side," Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters at a weekly media briefing. "India wanted concerns on terrorism reflected in the document, which was not acceptable to one particular country and therefore the statement was not adopted," he said, without naming the country. Indian media reported that New Delhi had refused to sign the document after it omitted reference to the April 22 attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed. India blamed Pakistan for the attack but Islamabad rejected the accusation. The attack led to the worst fighting in decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours after India struck what it called "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir. Pakistan denied that the targets had anything to do with "terrorism" and that they were civilian facilities. The foreign ministries of China and Pakistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment on India's statement. Earlier on Thursday, when asked about the joint statement, a Chinese defence ministry spokesperson said the meeting had "achieved successful results", without elaborating. It was the first time that senior ministers from India and Pakistan had shared a stage since their clash in May.
Reuters
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
India says defence gathering in China unable to adopt joint statement
NEW DELHI/BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) - Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in China were unable to adopt a joint statement at the end of their talks due to a lack of consensus on referring to "terrorism", the Indian foreign ministry said on Thursday. SCO is a 10-nation Eurasian security and political grouping whose members include China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran. Their defence ministers' meeting was held as a precursor to the annual summit of its leaders set for the autumn. "Certain members, member countries, could not reach consensus on certain issues and hence the document could not be finalised on our side," Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters at a weekly media briefing. "India wanted concerns on terrorism reflected in the document, which was not acceptable to one particular country and therefore the statement was not adopted," he said, without naming the country. Indian media reported that New Delhi had refused to sign the document after it omitted reference to the April 22 attack on Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed. India blamed Pakistan for the attack but Islamabad rejected the accusation. The attack led to the worst fighting in decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours after India struck what it called "terrorist infrastructure" in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir. Pakistan denied that the targets had anything to do with "terrorism" and that they were civilian facilities. The foreign ministries of China and Pakistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment on India's statement. Earlier on Thursday, when asked about the joint statement, a Chinese defence ministry spokesperson said the meeting had "achieved successful results", without elaborating. It was the first time that senior ministers from India and Pakistan had shared a stage since their clash in May.
BBC News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Kashmir: Indian investigators claim all Pahalgam attackers were Pakistani nationals
Indian investigators say all three militants involved in April's deadly attack on tourists near Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam town were Pakistani nationals from the UN-proscribed militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).Police had earlier issued sketches of three men saying two were Pakistanis while one was a local claim by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) came after it arrested two local men for allegedly sheltering the attackers. Pakistan has not commented on these claims. It had earlier rejected involvement in the attacks in which 26 people were killed. The attack in Baisaran, a popular tourist spot, had brought India and Pakistan on the brink of war. The nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours, who have fought three wars over Kashmir, claim the region in full but administer it in killings on 22 April had sent shockwaves through India and the case was handed over to NIA, a federal investigative agency. Security forces had launched a major search and combing operation in the region and thousands were detained across Kashmir for three attackers are, however, yet to be a statement on Sunday, NIA said the arrested men had "knowingly harboured the three armed terrorists at a seasonal dhol (hut)" before the 22 April attack. It did not give details of when the arrests took place and as those arrested are in custody, they have not made any statement.A little-known group, The Resistance Front (TRF), allied with the Lashkar-e-Taiba, had initially said it was behind the attack but later disowned days of the attack, India revoked the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a long-standing water-sharing agreement with Pakistan. Islamabad, in turn, withdrew from the 1972 Simla agreement that sought to settle differences through bilateral negotiations and peaceful followed it by launching air and missile attacks on 7 May, targeting sites it called "terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir". Pakistan denied the claim that these were terror camps and also responded by firing missiles and deploying drones into Indian hostilities between the two countries continued until 10 May when US President Donald Trump announced a BBC News India on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook
Time of India
04-06-2025
- General
- Time of India
'Foreign Media's Skewed...': Hindu American Org Lauds India's Pahalgam Delegations I Suhag Shukla
/ Jun 04, 2025, 10:31AM IST Despite firm support from Western governments following the Kashmir massacre, Western media coverage is drawing criticism for its language. Many outlets are referring to the perpetrators as "gunmen" or "militants" rather than acknowledging the act as terrorism. Watch TOI Podacast as Hindu American foundation's Suhag Shukla lauds India for owning the narrative. Watch#KashmirAttack #PalkiSharma #WesternMedia #Terrorism #IndiaUnderAttack #MediaBias #PakistanTerror
The Independent
25-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Indian lawmaker slammed for saying widows of Kashmir terror attack lacked ‘heroism'
An Indian lawmaker has been criticised for blaming women survivors of the deadly Kashmir terror attack for not fighting back against the armed gunmen to save the lives of the men who were killed. Ram Chander Jangra, a member of Rajya Sabha, or the upper house of Indian parliament, from prime minister Narendra Modi 's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was speaking at a public gathering in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Saturday when he accused the widows of lacking the spirit of a warrior. He was referring to the attack on a popular tourist site in Kashmir's Pahalgam on 22 April which killed at least 26 men, most of them Hindu tourists. According to the survivors and the witnesses of the attack which pushed India and Pakistan to a near-war situation, the armed gunmen approached the male tourists – several of them on honeymoon – and shot them dead. The witnesses said the attack was carried out by four to six gunmen in military fatigues who emerged from a nearby forest and unleashed a barrage of gunfire from close range. 'The brave women we had there, whose sindoor (vermillion powder many women wear on their forehead and hair parting to indicate marital status) was snatched away – they lacked the spirit of a warrior woman, lacked passion, emotion, heart, and so, with folded hands, they became victims of bullets,' Mr Jangra said in Hindi language while addressing a crowd in Bhiwani. He said the casualties would have been lower if the women had fought back. 'They should have absolutely fought back. If they had, there would have been fewer deaths and fewer people martyred. Who spares anyone just because they fold their hands? They had come to kill… they were terrorists. There was no mercy in their hearts,' the lawmaker said. The lawmaker also said the casualties would have been lower in the attack if the tourists would have received India's latest flagship military training under the tour of duty style Agniveer scheme. 'Had our tourists passed the training, the three terrorists could not have killed 26 people,' he said. Mr Jangra has been widely condemned by the Indian opposition for putting the blame on women who were victims of one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Kashmir. 'The shameful statement of BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ramchandra Jangra has once again exposed the petty mentality of RSS-BJP,' said Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of India's main opposition party Congress, referring to the ideological organisation of BJP. 'Even when the wife of the naval officer martyred in Pahalgam was being trolled on social media, Modi ji was silent,' Mr Kharge said. He was referring to Navy officer Vinay Narwal who was on his honeymoon in the picturesque Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir when he was shot dead in front of his wife by militants in one of the worst attacks on tourists in the Himalayan region in decades. His wife, Himanshi Narwal, was targeted in a online hate campaign after she called for peace. "People going against Muslims or Kashmiris – we don't want this. We want peace and only peace," she said. It led to a hate campaign by Internet trolls accusing her of dishonouring her late husband's memory. Mr Kharge added: 'There is a competition among BJP leaders to malign the victims of Pahalgam and our brave army.' He also called for the lawmaker's sacking. 'You say you have sindoor in your veins … If this is so, then you should dismiss these foul-mouthed leaders of yours for the sake of respect of women,' he said in a direct appeal to Mr Modi, who said at an election rally the vermillion powder 'ran in veins', referring to the military operation named Sindoor to hit back at terrorist camps in Pakistan. Another Indian opposition party, the All India Trinamool Congress, also condemned the statement calling the remarks by Mr Jangra 'vile and inhuman'. The BJP has 'mastered the art of degrading women', the AITC said. 'Misogyny isn't a bug in their ideology, it's the core. And PM @narendramodi dares to talk about Naari Samman (women respect)? Spare us the hypocrisy. Women are NOT your vote bank slogans,' the party said in a statement. The backlash comes days after an Indian lawmaker faced criticism for making offensive remarks against a Muslim army spokesperson in the aftermath of the conflict with Pakistan, with opposition leaders calling for his apology and resignation. In a public speech earlier this month, Vijay Shah, also a member of the BJP, suggested that Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, who addressed the media on India-Pakistan air strikes, was from the 'community of people' who had attacked India.
