New Delhi, May 8, 2025 (ANI): While speaking on Pakistan's propaganda that it downed Indian jets, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that this is a country that started lying as soon as it was born. He further said, “...There is nothing surprising in it. After all, this is a country that started lying as soon as it was born. In 1947, when the Pakistani army claimed Jammu and Kashmir, they lied not to any random person but to the United Nations that we have nothing to do with it... So this journey started 75 years ago...”
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00:00I have told you how much misinformation is coming from the border,
00:04but it's like that the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister of Pakistan
00:09have been propagated in the misinformation.
00:12They have been saying that there are three of them,
00:14and they have been asking them, and when they ask them,
00:18they say that in the social media, we have seen all these things.
00:21So if you have said something, if you have said something,
00:23so that they understand that propaganda is not going on.
00:27Look, when it is right, we will immediately think about this.
00:34But we have the question that the Prime Minister, the Upradhan Minister, the Redesh Minister,
00:42the Raksha Minister, are talking about these kinds of things, so there is no doubt about it.
01:19I am not surprised that this kind of disinformation is being indulged in.
01:42Sir, Sidhan from Viyon, sir, we have seen a lot of
01:49negative comments coming from the Pakistani military of escalation.
01:54If tomorrow there is an escalation, there are strikes, we know one attempt has been thwarted,
01:59what will be the Indian response to those attempts of creating more escalation?
02:04Because it is looking like it is going towards more escalation.
02:09And my second question is, are any other world powers, essentially the P5 countries,
02:14the West Asian countries, reaching out to de-escalate the current situation?
02:19Look, on escalation, we have already made our stance clear.
02:23I mean, there are two basic points.
02:25First of all, it is Pakistan that escalated on the 22nd of April.
02:30We are only responding to that escalation.
02:33And then what we have said yesterday and what my colleagues have said today,
02:38that now if there is an attempt at further escalation by Pakistan,
02:43it will be responded to in an appropriate domain.
02:48And therefore, the choice is entirely that of Pakistan to make.
02:54As to your second question, I don't think I can do better than to point you in the direction
03:00of the statements that are being made from practically every chancellery in the world
03:05and the sentiment that they are carrying.
03:07That sentiment essentially and for the major portion is support for the government of India
03:14in the context of the condemnation of the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on the 22nd of April.
03:22There is wide recognition of the government of India's right to respond to these attacks in self-defense.
03:28And, of course, a desire to ensure that there is not further escalation.
03:35I think these statements speak for themselves.