Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri briefed the media on Thursday on Operation Sindoor, which was launched by the Indian Armed Forces.
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00:00first of all there are there is mention on all sides of escalation I think the first point that
00:14you have to keep in mind is the attack of 22nd April in Pahlgaam is the original escalation
00:21second I want to invite your attention to
00:51the involvement of the group calling itself the resistance front in these attacks I pointed this
01:01out yesterday that this is a group that is a known front for the well-known Pakistan-based terrorist
01:10organization Lashkar-e-Taiba the group has been reported earlier I mentioned to you about the
01:21Indian authorities providing information to the UN 1267 sanctions monitoring committee and
01:31in fact we are going to be meeting with the team again very soon and we will be providing an update
01:39to the information that we have provided earlier but what is interesting
01:43this was after the fact that the
01:56this was after the fact that the
02:09the TRF claimed responsibility for this attack not once but twice
02:14the
02:17non-escalatory precise
02:19setiq measured or considered
02:24our intention
02:24has not been to escalate matters we are only responding to the original escalation as I said
02:33and our response has been targeted precise controlled and measured
02:37only military no military targets have been selected only terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan has been hit
02:48there is mention on all sides of escalation I think the first point that you have to keep in mind is the attack of 22nd April in
03:01is the original escalation
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03:27Secondly, I want to invite your attention to the involvement of the group calling itself the Resistance Front in these attacks.
03:42I pointed this out yesterday that this is a group that is a known front for the well-known Pakistan-based terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
03:56The group has been reported earlier.
04:02I mentioned to you about the Indian authorities providing information to the UN 1267 Sanctions Monitoring Committee.
04:14And in fact, we are going to be meeting with the team again very soon and we will be providing an update to the information that we have provided earlier.
04:26But what is interesting is that in the time of the United States, when there was a press conference,
04:38this was after the fact that the TRF claimed responsibility for this attack not once but twice within a few hours after the incident on the 22nd of April.
05:02And then again on the morning of 23rd April.
05:06And it is perhaps only after the full gravity of the incident was realized by its masters and handlers across the border that it was managed to back off from this claim.
05:18Obviously, that retraction doesn't convince anybody.
05:22Pakistan trying to wash its hands off any and all involvement with terrorism.
05:29I think the Pakistani information minister said there are no terrorists in Pakistan.
05:34And I think he was challenged on that in the television program that he was appearing on.
05:40But even if I partially repeat myself from yesterday, I think Pakistan's reputation as the epicenter of global terrorism
05:54is rooted in a number of instances where concrete evidence is available, not just to India,
06:02but to governments and authorities and agencies around the world.
06:08There are several terrorist attacks around the world where Pakistani fingerprints have been found.
06:16I don't need to belabor the point with regard to this audience about where Osama bin Laden was found and who called him a martyr.
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