India is not friendless in the UN Security Council and Pakistan chairing its Taliban Sanctions Committee and being named vice-chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee is a designation without much practical consequence, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said.
Tharoor is leading a multi-party Parliamentary delegation to the US to brief key interlocutors about the threat of Pakistan-backed terrorism faced by India and India’s strong resolve against terrorism.
“These committees all work on consensus and it’s not really possible for a chairman to single-handedly get something through that the others resist or push a particular line that other countries are not in favour of,” Tharoor said during an interaction at the Indian Embassy here on Thursday. PTI
