No evidence Pakistan involved in Pahalgam terror attack: Indian ex-minister

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Chidambaram says 'homegrown terrorists' could be involved in Pahalgam attack

2025-07-28T11:29:04+05:00 News Desk

Barely hours before the debate on Operation Sindoor in Parliament on Monday, former Indian home minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram triggered a massive political controversy with his comment in an interview, in which he said "homegrown terrorists" could be involved in the Pahalgam terror attack. He also said that "there is no evidence” so far that the killers came from Pakistan. 

Chidambaram in an interview with The Quint said, "Have they identified the terrorists? Where they came from? I mean, for all we know, they could be homegrown terrorists. Why do you assume that they came from Pakistan? There's no evidence of that."

Chidambaram also questioned BJP government's 'silence' on the issue. "And why is the Prime Minister not speaking on Operation Sindoor? Why do you think there's a reluctance to have a debate in the temple of democracy? That's what Parliament is. After all, Prime Minister Modi has addressed the nation. He's addressed various rallies," he said. 

Reacting sharply to his remarks, BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya posted on 'X' that 'Congress rushes to give a clean chit to Pakistan'. "Why is it that every time our forces confront Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, Congress leaders sound more like Islamabad’s defence lawyers than India’s opposition?' Malviya asked.

As row erupted over his remark, Chidambaram in a post on X said, "The worst kind is a troll who suppresses the full recorded interview, takes two sentences, mutes some words, and paints the speaker in a black colour!"

Chidambaram also criticised the Prime Minister for not making a comprehensive statement on Operation Sindoor. "We know it was an intelligence failure. But so was the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 an intelligence failure," Chidambaram said.

Echoing similar remarks on Monday, Congress MP Imran Masood also demanded answers from the Centre on the whereabouts of the Pahalgam terrorists, saying that the people have a "right to know" where the terrorists went afterwards and questioning the security at the border.

"If the terrorists came from Pakistan, then how are our borders secured? They came, committed the act and left. We will ask if they were airlifted and airdropped, where they came from, and where they went. We have the right to know," Masood told ANI. 
Also, Congress leader Manickam Tagore said that BJP is employing diversionary tactics to divert from the “real issue.”

"The real issue is of the Pahalgam terror attack and the failure of the government to continue with Operation Sindoor, the surrender of Mr Modi to Trump's Social Truth. We are very clear that this is a diversionary tactic by the BJP, and we will not fall into their trap." 

“The question is straight, we want to know where are those terrorists who killed the husbands of our 26 sisters. The government has failed till now, whether intentionally or accidentally. We still do not know who they were, where they came from. The dangerous game being played in Kashmir is not beneficial for the nation. We want to know who those terrorists are, where they came from, and why they have not been caught till now.”

Meanwhile, Chidambaram in his interview to the Quint also said, “I said it in a column that in a war, losses will occur on both sides. I understand that India would have suffered losses.”

"Therefore, why they are reluctant to admit the losses, but losses are inevitable and natural in a war. So, admit the losses. I think they think they can put a large shroud on operation Sindoor. It won't work," the Congress leader said.

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