Thiruvananthapuram, May 8 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday lauded the efforts made by the government to dismantle the communal narrative of "Hindu-Muslim" animosity peddled by Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir amid increasing tensions, saying that the special briefing on Operation Sindoor conducted by a Kashmiri Pandit (Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri) alongside a Muslim officer (Colonel Sofiya Qureshi) refutes such claims.

"We are doing all the right things so far. The nature of Operation Sindoor was right. The messaging of the press conference in which the foreign secretary, a Kashmiri Pandit, was flanked on both sides by women officers, one of whom was a Muslim, demonstrates a narrative against the one of Hindu-Muslim hostility ...