Is Operation Sindoor the new normal in terror response? Jaishankar says India won't bow down to Pak nuclear blackmail

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday said the United States designated The Resistance Front (TRF) a global terrorist organisation, thanks to Indian diplomacy.

Jaishankar said the TRF, a proxy of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack twice but Pakistan continued to defend the terror group.

"Thanks to our diplomacy, the TRF has been designated as a Global Terrorist Organisation by the US government, and the same Pakistani foreign minister who took so much pride saying he defended the TRF says if the US has done this, we accept this," the foreign minister said in Lok Sabha during the debate on Operation Sindoor.

Jaishankar said India sent a message to Pakistan through Operation Sindoor, adding that the message was that India is trying to exercise the right to defend itself. He added that there will be no mediation with Pakistan and that New Delhi will not bow down to Pakistan's nuclear blackmail. "Operation Sindoor a new normal in how we respond to terror," he added.

He recalled that multilateral groups such as Quad and BRICS condemned April 22 Pahalgam attack while Germany, France and the EU said India has every right to defend itself against terror. He said seven parliamentary delegations went to 33 nations to explain India's zero tolerance towards terror to world leaders.

Addressing Donald Trump's claim of using trade offers for making India and Pakistan reach a ceasefire, Jaishankar asserted that there was no call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President between April 22 and June 17.

"At no stage in any conversation with the United States was there any linkage with trade and what was going on," Jaishankar said.

"After we retaliated Pak attack, we got phone calls saying Pak was ready to stop; but we told them request has to come from DGMO," the foreign minister added.