In a strong rebuttal to recent remarks made by Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday, May 13, underscored that a “new normal” now governs India’s response to terrorism and warned Islamabad against nurturing illusions about avoiding consequences.
MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, responding to a statement by Pakistan’s Foreign Office and Ishaq Dar’s comments during a CNN interview, said: ‘That a nation which has nurtured terrorism on an industrial scale should think that it can escape the consequences is fooling itself. The terrorist infrastructure sites that India destroyed were responsible not only for the deaths of Indians but of many other innocents around the world. There is now a new normal. The sooner Pakistan gets it, the better it is.”
This stern message follows Dar’s claim that Pakistan’s military action was in “self-defence” after India’s May 7 retaliatory strikes under Operation Sindoor, which targeted terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The operation was launched after a deadly terror attack in Pahalgam in April claimed the lives of Indian civilians.
