‘Pakistan Chose to Escalate’: Indian Envoy to UK Says Operation Sindoor Was ‘Reasonable’.

Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Vikram Doraiswami said New Delhi will respond ‘proportionally’ if Pakistan continues to retaliate.

As tensions between India and Pakistan continue to escalate, the Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Vikram Doraiswami, made it clear that New Delhi will respond “in the same light” if Islamabad retaliates. In an interview with Sky News, the Indian envoy said that his country is responding to Pakistani provocations “proportionally” and will continue to do the same in the future.

The tussle between India and Pakistan skyrocketed after 26 tourists were shot dead in Pahalgam, Kashmir, by terrorists with links to the Pakistani terror group. Two weeks after the incident, India responded to the provocation by conducting Operation Sindoor in which they targeted nine terror camps in Pakistan.

Meanwhile,US Vice President JD Vance on Thursday emphasised that Washington wants tensions between India and Pakistan to ease, but said it is “fundamentally none of our business.”

He also said that the US will not get involved in the conflict, after tensions escalated between the two nuclear-armed nations following the deadly Pahalgam terror attack and India’s retaliation through Operation Sindoor, which killed more than 100 terrorists on Pakistani soil.

“What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we’re not going to get involved in the middle of a war that’s fundamentally none of our business and beyond America’s ability to control,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News, when asked about the ongoing situation.

“We can’t control these countries. Fundamentally, India has its issues with Pakistan, and Pakistan has responded to India. What we can do is urge both sides to de-escalate a little,” he added.