Shashi Tharoor shuts down Trump’s India-Pak claim with a flourish: ‘No one needed to persuade us’

Shashi Tharoor shuts down Trump’s India-Pak claim with a flourish: ‘No one needed to persuade us’

"We have enormous respect for the American presidency, and we will speak with that respect in mind. But broadly speaking, our understanding is a bit different... No one needed to persuade us to stop. We had already said to stop. If there was any persuasion by the American president or his senior officials, it would have been persuasion of the Pakistanis. They would have had to be persuaded. We don't need to be persuaded because we don't want war. We want to focus on development. That's the basic message," says Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, as the delegation he is leading will be in the US for its last leg of the visit.

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