India and Pak conflict was always in conventional domain: Misri to parl. panel

Foreign secretary Vikram Misri told a parliamentary committee on Monday that the conflict between India and Pakistan was always in the conventional domain, and there was no nuclear signalling by the neighbouring country, PTI has quoted sources as saying.

The sources reportedly said Misri reiterated the government's stand that the decision to stop military actions was taken at a bilateral level, as some Opposition members questioned US President Donald Trump's repeated assertions about his administration's role in stopping the conflict.

Some MPs, the sources said, asked if Pakistan used Chinese platforms in the conflict. Misri said it did not matter as India hammered Pakistani airbases.

When an Opposition member asked about Trump's several social media posts eyeing "centre-stage" after India and Pakistan decided to stop hostilities, the foreign secretary quipped that the US president did not take his permission to do so.

The committee members also unanimously condemned the and his family members following the stopping of military actions and praised his professional conduct, the sources said.

To questions about Turkiye's adversarial stand against India, he said the country had traditionally not been a supporter of India.

As per a report in the Indian Express, an Opposition member wanted to know the whereabouts of the perpetrators of the on 22 April, in which 25 Indians and one Nepalese national were killed, and what India was doing to capture them.

Another member reportedly inquired about the steps being taken by the Indian government to isolate Pakistan on the global stage and put pressure on the US to put India's neighbour back on the Financial Action Task Force grey list.

The Indian Express report also says an Opposition member questioned why India appeared diplomatically isolated on the international stage, and the message the country intends to send out so that Pakistan, the perpetrator of terror, is not equated with India, the victim of terror.

The meeting of the Parliamentary standing committee on external affairs, chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, was attended by a number of lawmakers, including the TMC's Abhishek Banerjee, the Congress' Rajeev Shukla and Deepender Hooda, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, and the BJP's Aparajita Sarangi and Arun Govil.

The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Indian armed forces carrying out Operation Sindoor to avenge the Pahalgam attack and the subsequent military actions between the two countries.

India and Pakistan reached an understanding on halting all military actions on 10 May.

With PTI inputs