Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks during a debate in the Lok Sabha on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, at the Monsoon session of Parliament, on July 29, 2025.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) accused former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram of giving a clean chit to Pakistan as the latter said there was no evidence that the Pahalgam terrorists came from Pakistan.
In an interview with a media platform, Mr. Chidambaram said: “…they are unwilling to disclose what the NIA [National Investigation Agency] has done all these weeks. Have they identified the terrorists?…where they came from? For all we know, they could be homegrown terrorists. Why do you assume that they came from Pakistan? There is no evidence of that.”
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The Minister said there was evidence that the three terrorists involved in the Pahalgam terror attack were Pakistanis because Pakistani voter numbers of two out of three terrorists are available and the chocolates found with them were also made in Pakistan.
“The former Home Minister of the country is giving a clean chit to Pakistan in front of the whole world and by doing so, he is also raising the question that why did we attack Pakistan? He asks for proof but today 140 crore people of the country have come to know about their conspiracy to defend Pakistan.”
He said the blunder made by Congress led to the creation of Pakistan and claimed that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was the legacy of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Participating in the special discussion on Operation Sindoor in Lok Sabha, Mr. Shah also slammed successive Congress governments for failing to capitalise on opportunities to reclaim lost territories from Pakistan.
“All roots of terrorism lead back to Pakistan. And Pakistan itself is the result of the Congress party’s blunder. Had they not accepted the idea of partition, Pakistan would never have come into existence,” Mr. Shah said. His remarks came after Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi sought to know from the government why it halted the military action against Pakistan and stopped short of reclaiming Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
The Minister said the Congress had opposed the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which was enacted in 2002 by the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, to curb terrorism.
Published – July 29, 2025 11:07 pm IST
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