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White House.“We have enormous respect for the American presidency and for the American president. And I think we don’t know exactly what his folks said to Pakistan.“We didn’t need persuading by anybody, because our signal from day one was, if Pakistan hits back, we will hit them even harder. If they stop, we will stop. We said that from the first day. We said it on the last day,” he said.“So from our point of view, there was no need to ask us to stop, because we were going to stop as soon as Pakistan did. Of course, they may have talked to Pakistan. They may have said various things to Pakistan. We will never know what was said because that’s between them and Pakistan, and that may well explain a lot of what is coming out in Washington. But I can’t tell you because I’m not Pakistani and I’m not American,” Tharoor said.Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, with India carrying out precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the early hours of May 7.Pakistan attempted to attack Indian military bases on May 8, 9, and 10. The Indian side responded strongly to the Pakistani actions.The on-ground hostilities ended with an understanding of stopping the military actions following talks between the directors general of military operations of both sides on May 10.
