Rahul questions Jaishankar's 'statement on informing Pakistan'

With the government and the Congress locking horns over the composition of the inter-party delegations for global outreach against Pakistan, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday sounded a confrontationist tone against the government by questioning the wisdom of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's purported statement that India had sent a message to Pakistan that the Indian forces would be striking "only at terror infrastructures" and "not" at the neighbour's army.

Maintaining that providing such information to Pakistan was "a crime", Gandhi asked how many aircraft the Indian Air Force lost as a result.

Tweeting an audio clip of Jaishankar's purported statement, Gandhi asked on X:


"Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime. EAM has publicly admitted that GOI did it.

Who authorised it?

How many aircraft did our Air Force lose as a result?"

The government's PIB fact-check wing had earlier claimed Jaishankar was "misquoted" about having stated so.