Doha [Qatar], May 26 (ANI): Congress leader Anand Sharma, member of the all-party delegation led by NCP-SCP MP Supriya Sule, on Monday termed Pakistan as 'a sham of democracy' and said that they not only 'train, fund, arm but also shelter and protect these terrorists organisation' who claimed responsibility for the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, referring to the The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Sharma, who is a member of the all-party delegation going to Egypt, Qatar, Ethiopia, and South Africa, said, 'With clarity, we would like to convey to you that this is not the first time that India has been targeted by a terrorist attack from across the border. Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba are not only headquartered in Pakistan's Bahawalpur and Muridke, but those who claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack, the TRF is a front of the Jaish-e-Mohammad. These two organisations are UN-designated terror groups, and that has to be registered,' while citing attacks on Indian Parliament, Uri, Udhampur and Poonch and 'big' attack on 26/11 (2008 Mumbai attacks), 'in which the citizens of the world were killed.'

The Congress leader stated that the objective of their diplomatic mission here was to 'sensitise the people about the 'seriousness of the situation as it prevails'

'Pakistan is a sham of a democracy, which is run by its military and the ISI. They not only train, fund, arm, but also shelter and protect these terrorist organisations, which is reprehensible. If UN-designated terrorist headquarters in Pakistan were targeted, why would they attack our military installations and even civilians? We have come here to inform and form public opinion, sensitise the people of the seriousness of this situation as it prevails,' he said, during a question and answer session here.

In a diplomatic outreach following Operation Sindoor, the Modi government has formed seven multi-party delegations to inform nations about Pakistan's links to terrorism and India's strong message of zero tolerance for terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.

Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7 as a decisive military response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack by Pak-sponsored terrorists, in which 26 people were brutally killed. Indian armed forces targeted terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the elimination of over 100 terrorists affiliated with groups including Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen. (ANI)