Severe setback to India’s diplomacy: Cong on US panel’s ‘Pak success’ claim in report

New Delhi, Nov 20: The Congress on Thursday described a US commission report mentioning “Pakistan’s military success over India” in a four-day clash as “yet another severe setback” to India’s diplomacy and asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministry of External Affairs would register their objections to it.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also took a swipe at the government over US President Donald Trump repeating his claim about stopping the India-Pakistan conflict.
He said Trump has once again trumpeted for the 61st time the claim that he “brought an end to Operation Sindoor by threatening to impose tariffs of 350 per cent on India”. Ramesh said the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has just submitted its annual report to the US Congress. The commission set up jointly by the US Senate and House of Representatives has 12 independent members, Ramesh pointed out.
“The 2025 Annual Report is almost 800 pages long. The sections on pages 108 and 109 are simply astonishing and beyond understanding. It describes the Pahalgam terror attack of April 2025, orchestrated by Pakistan as an ‘insurgent attack’,” Ramesh said.
“President Trump has claimed 60 times (so far) that he had halted Operation Sindoor. The PM has kept completely quiet. Now comes this report of the US-China Economic and Security Commission of the US Congress that is simply unacceptable to India.”
“China’s role in the May 7-10, 2025, clash between Pakistan’s and India’s militaries drew global attention as Pakistan’s military relied upon Chinese weaponry and reportedly leveraged Chinese intelligence. During the clash, triggered by India’s response to a deadly insurgent attack that killed 26 civilians, both countries attacked targets farther into one another’s territories than at any time in 50 years,” the report said.
It went on to say, “Pakistan’s military success over India in its four-day clash showcased Chinese weaponry. While characterisation of this conflict as a ‘proxy war’ may overstate China’s role as an instigator, Beijing opportunistically leveraged the conflict to test and advertise the sophistication of its weapons, useful in the contexts of its ongoing border tensions with India and its expanding defence industry goals.” (PTI)