‘Pakistan is not isolated as it was after Mumbai attacks’: Congress mocks govt Operation Sindoor a year later

New Delhi: Congress on Thursday targeted government over handling and consequences operation sindorClaims that despite India’s diplomatic outreach after the military operation, Pakistan is not isolated globally as it was after the 2008 incident mumbai terror attack.Congress secretary-general for communications Jairam Ramesh also sharply criticized the government’s handling of the military operation and its diplomatic fallout.Ramesh said on Channel“Subsequently, the US President repeated this statement more than a hundred times in different countries and his good friend Prime Minister Narendra Modi never refuted it once,” he added.Ramesh also referred to statements issued by senior military officials after the operation. He said that Indian Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan, while speaking in Singapore on May 30, 2025, said that India initially suffered losses due to tactical errors, but later after reviewing and correcting these errors, it carried out precision strikes deep inside Pakistan.He also recalled that on June 10, 2025, at a seminar in Jakarta, the attaché of the Indian Embassy in Indonesia admitted that India lost the aircraft on May 7, 2025, due to restrictions in the political leadership.Referring to another statement, Ramesh said Army Vice Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Rahul Singh on July 4, 2025 emphasized that China was deeply involved in Pakistan’s response to Operation Sindoor through equipment, ammunition, satellite imagery and real-time targeting support.“However, the Modi government’s targeted capitulations to China continue unabated, including loss of traditional patrolling rights in Ladakh, record Chinese imports, relaxation of foreign direct investment norms, etc.,” Ramesh claimed.He said: “Despite India’s extensive diplomatic efforts, Pakistan has not been isolated as it was after the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. On the contrary, from June 2025, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, received an unusually warm embrace from President Trump, while Pakistan, the world’s leading sponsor of cross-border terrorism, also received praise from the US military.”Ramesh also recalled that after the Kargil war ended in July 1999, the Vajpayee government set up a four-member Kargil Review Committee headed by strategic affairs expert K. Subrahmanyam to review the sequence of events and make recommendations.India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, 2025, in response to the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists. India has carried out air strikes on nine terror infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.The attacks led to a dramatic escalation of tensions, with Pakistan launching retaliatory attacks that were largely thwarted by the Indian military. Hostilities ended on May 10 after military officials from the two countries held talks via hotline and reached an understanding to cease military operations.