All-party delegation LIVE: Shashi Tharoor leads team visiting US, says ‘we are not going to…’; next stop Guyana

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and his team members of the all-party delegation on Operation Sindoor arrived in the US on Saturday (US local time). The MPs of the delegation landed at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York City. They paid their respects at the 9/11 memorial.

During an interaction at the Consulate in New York, Tharoor briefed his audience about the Pahalgam terrorist attack and India's Operation Sindoor, and also highlighted Pakistan's involvement.

He said even though there is calm at the India-Pakistan borders now, “the fundamental underlying problem remains.”

As his delegation reached the US, Tharoor said, “Our idea is very much to speak to a cross section of public and political opinion in each of the countries we're going to about recent events [Pahalgam terror attack] which trouble a number of people around the world...”

Here's all the latest you need to know about Shashi Tharoor's visit to US:

10: 40 am: "...When we go outside India, we are all Indians. When we are inside the country, we are separate political parties. We will talk about zero tolerance against terrorism and will show the real face of Pakistan to everyone, said Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Khatana, who is part of the all-party delegation of Group 2 led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad.

10:30 am: Congress MP Dr Amar Singh, who is part of the all-party delegation led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, said, “We are going to the international community to tell that our neighboring country Pakistan not only carried out the Pahalgam incident, but they keep doing such incidents again and again.”

“When we talk at the international level, they say that we have nothing to do with it. We are going to the whole world with full evidence and will tell that this [Pakistan] country should be isolated, there should be no international funding for them, it has become a factory of terrorism and it should be closed,” he said.

10 am: The all-party delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor will be interacting with the Guyanese leadership and key interlocutors from media, Indian community and diaspora, and friends of India in Guyana.

According to a statement, the team will underline India's strong message of unity and brotherhood as well as the country's collective resolve to fight against the scourge of terrorism.

“The Delegation will also join the 59th Independence Day celebrations hosted by Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in Berbice on 25 May,” the statement added.

9 am: Meanwhile, another group of all-party delegation, led by JD(U) MP Sanjay Jha, held a meeting Amit Kumar, Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea at the Indian Embassy in Seoul.

The delegation includes JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, CPI(M) MP John Brittas, BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi, BJP MP Brij Lal, BJP MP Pradan Baruah, Ambassador Mohan Kumar and BJP MP Dr Hemang Joshi.

8 am: Speaking about how India has been subjected to terror acts time and again, Tharoor underlined that "perpetrators of terror should indeed be brought to justice, and we are not going to stop our hunt for those who did this latest atrocity".

7 am: Tharoor said the delgation went to the 9/11 Memorial “to give out a message that New York has also suffered terror attack 20 years back and we have the same experience.”

"We want them to understand that there is a need for solidarity. We need to show a resolve to the world like America that we are against such terror attacks and we will take action...," he told news agency ANI.

6:45 am: "We came both as a reminder that this is a shared problem, but also out of a spirit of solidarity with the victims, who included Indians...it is a global problem...we must fight it unitedly," Tharoor said.

6:30 am: Tharoor said there is reasonable amount of calm that's raining on the border of India-Pakistan today but the fundamental underlying problem remains.

"So it's for us an opportunity, we will be in every country, meeting members of the executive, meeting members of the legislature, meeting big tankers and influential foreign policy experts, and at the same time interacting with the media and public opinion in every one of these places," he added.

6:17 am: Tharoor said that within one hour of the “atrocity” (Pahalgam terror attack), a group called the Resistance Front had claimed credit.

“The Resistance Front was known for some years to be a frontal organisation of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is on the US-designated terror list as well as UN sanctions committees,” he said.

Tharoor added, “India had gone to the UN sanctions committee with information about the Resistance Front in 2023 and 2024, and now sadly, it acted in 2025...Pakistan chose to follow its usual path of denial...”

6:15 am: Informing about India's Operation Sindoor, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, " I don't work for the government, as you know. I work for an opposition party...I myself authored an op-ed...saying the time has come to hit hard but hit smart. I'm pleased to say that's exactly what India did...very precise and calibrated strikes took place on 9 specific known terrorist bases, headquarters and launchpads..."

6:05 am: Shashi Tharoor said, “We are determined now that there's got to be a new bottom line to this. We have tried everything, international dossier, complaints...everything has been tried.”

"Pakistan has remained in denial, there has been absolutely no conviction, no serious criminal prosecution, no attempt to dismantle the terror infrastructure in that country, and the persistence of safe havens...you (Pakistan) do this, you are going to get this back and we have demonstrated with this Operation (Operation Sindoor) that we can do it with a degree of precision...," Tharoor said.

5:40 am: Speaking about the Pahalgam terror attack, Tharoor said, “...Some people decided that they would want to attack that process of normalisation (in J&K), second to undermine the narrative, as well as the prosperity of the people of Kashmir.”

“It was a bunch of people going around identifying the religions of the people before them and killing them on that basis, which was clearly intended to provoke a backlash in the rest of India, since the victims were overwhelmingly Hindu...,” Tharoor said.

He added, "The message was very clear that there was a malign intent... India, sadly, had no reason to doubt where it came from..."

5:15 am: After paying tribute at 9/11 memorial, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, "It was obviously a very moving moment for us, but it was also meant to send a very strong message that we are here in a city which is bearing still the scars of that savage terrorist attack in the wake of yet another terrorist attack in our own country...We came both as a reminder that this is a shared problem, but also out of a spirit of solidarity with the victims, who included Indians...it is a global problem...we must fight it unitedly."