The Fact Check Unit of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has dismissed the claims that External Affairs Minister Jaishankar said India had informed Pakistan in advance before carrying out Operation Sindoor of attacking the terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
In a post on social media platform X (previously Twitter), the PIB clarified that Jaishankar was being misquoted and had not made any such statement.
“The social media post falsely implies from External Affairs Minister @DrSJaishankar's statement that India informed Pakistan before the start of #OperationSindoor," the PIB fact check unit stated.
“EAM is being misquoted and he has not made this statement," PIB wrote, urging people to “remain vigilant and avoid falling for deceptive information."
Speaking to reporters on ceasefire and Operation Sindoor outside the new Honduras Embassy, which was inaugurated on Thursday, the EAM was heard saying, "Because even at the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan, saying we are striking at terrorist infrastructure; we are not striking at the military, so the military has an option of standing out and not interfering in this process. They chose not to take the good advice."
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On dealings with Pakistan, he said they will be purely bilateral: “Where our dealings with Pakistan are concerned, they will be bilateral and strictly bilateral.
“That is a national consensus for many years, and there is absolutely no change in that consensus that dealings with Pakistan will be bilateral.”
On talks with Pakistan, he said, “I think the PM made it very clear, that the only talks with Pakistan will be on terror; that Pakistan has a list of terrorists who need to be handed over, they have to shut down the terrorist infrastructure, they know what to do.
“We are prepared to discuss with them on what is to be done on terrorism, those are the talks which are feasible.”
On the Indus Waters Treaty, he said:
“The Indus Waters Treaty is held in abeyance and will continue to be held in abeyance until cross border terrorism by Pakistan is credibly and irrevocably stopped.”
On the Kashmir issue being raked up by Pakistan, and also by the US, he said;
“Sometimes the Kashmir issue has been brought up. Again the only thing that remains to be discussed on Kashmir, is the vacation of the illegally occupied Indian territory, in POK. We are open to discussing that, with Pakistan,” he added.
“We have achieved the goals that we set out to do, by destroying the terrorist infrastructure, in Bahawalpur, Muridke, Muzaffarabad and other places.”
