Chandigarh, May 13, 2025(ANI): Congress MP Manish Tewari said, "The statement which has come from US President Donald Trump is, whether you like it or not, a factual statement. If you look at the India-Pakistan paradigm in a perspective from 1947 to 1972, whenever tensions went up between India and Pakistan and they were primarily over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, it was the United Nations Security Council resolutions which were the template for whatever interlocution took place between the two countries...The bottom line ultimately is that when tensions ratchet up between two de facto nuclear weapon states, the rest of the world is not going to stand by and watch. Therefore, the other countries of the world will obviously be talking to both countries when they're not talking to each other…, One thing is very evident that a message has gone to Pakistan that if it continues to use terror as an instrument of state policy there would be punitive consequences and those punitive consequences in the aftermath of the Pahalgam massacre were executed by the Indian Armed Forces... I think the Pakistani leadership would have realised that it cannot be business as usual. They cannot use nuclear blackmail in order to continue with state-sponsored terror. I do hope that the Pakistani leadership, both the civilian leadership and more importantly the military leadership and even most importantly the Pakistani deep state, which has spawned these semi-state actors, would get the message very clear."
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00:00When tensions ratchet up between two de facto nuclear weapon states, the rest of the world
00:07is not going to stand by and watch.
00:10The other countries of the world will obviously be talking to both the countries when you
00:15are not talking to each other.
00:16The message has gone to Pakistan that if it continues to use terror as an instrument of
00:22state policy, there would be punitive consequences.
00:27They cannot use the nuclear blackmail in order to continue with state-sponsored terror.
00:35The statement which has come from the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald
00:43Trump, is whether you like it or not a factual statement.
00:48If you look at the India-Pakistan paradigm in a perspective, from 1947 till 1972, whenever
00:58tensions went up between India and Pakistan, and they were primarily over the state of
01:04Jammu and Kashmir, it is the United Nations Security Council resolutions which were the
01:09military template for whatever interlocution took place between the two countries.
01:17After 1972 till 1990, it was the similar agreement which injected bilateralism into the relationship.
01:28But when Pakistan started waving the nuclear word, 1990 onwards, and the then Deputy National
01:38Security Advisor, Robert Gates came to India on the 19th of May, 1990.
01:45Even onwards, whenever there has been a flashpoint in the India-Pakistan equation, there has been
01:54intervention by foreign powers led by the United States of America.
02:01It happened in 2001 at the height of Operation Parakram.
02:07It happened subsequently when tensions went up between India and Pakistan, post the 26-11
02:13terror attack.
02:15It happened again after the Uri surgical strike in 2019.
02:22After the Pulwama-Balakot dynamic, President Trump publicly took ownership from Hanoi of the
02:30fact that he had ratcheted tensions down between India and Pakistan.
02:35And on 10th of May, 2025, his social media post and the subsequent statement by Secretary of
02:45State, Marco Rubio, again testifies and underscores to the fact that there has been back-channeling,
02:53brokering, arbitration, third-party mediation, whatever you may like to call it.
03:00You see, the bottom line ultimately is that when tensions ratchet up between two de facto
03:08nuclear weapon states, the rest of the world is not going to stand by and watch when you
03:14have missiles flying from there to here and, you know, everywhere.
03:19So therefore, the other countries of the world will obviously be talking to both the countries
03:26when you are not talking to each other.
03:33and if you are not talking to each other, then we will answer to each other.
03:40And the other countries have told us that we have three attacks there.
03:42And the other countries will say that we are not talking to each other.
03:45Well, one thing is very evident that a message has gone to Pakistan that if it continues to
03:54use terror as an instrument of state policy, there would be punitive consequences.
04:00And those punitive consequences in the aftermath of the Pahalgam massacre were executed by the
04:09Indian armed forces between the 7th and the 10th of March, 19, 20, 25.
04:17Therefore, under those circumstances, I think the Pakistani leadership would have realized that
04:25it cannot be business as usual. They cannot use the nuclear blackmail in order to continue with
04:34state sponsored terror. And I do hope that the Pakistani leadership, both the civilian leadership
04:42and more importantly, the military leadership, and even most importantly, the Pakistani deep state,
04:48which has spawned these semi-state actors would get the message very, very clearly.