Chandigarh, May 13 -- Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday asserted that India's response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and the subsequent retaliations has sent a clear message to Pakistan that using terrorism as an instrument of state policy will invite severe consequences.

Tewari lauded the Indian Armed Forces for their execution of Operation Sindoor, which targeted nine terror infrastructures in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) after the attack that claimed 26 lives.

"One thing is very evident, that a message has gone to Pakistan that if it continues to use terror as an instrument of state policy, there will be punitive consequences, and those punitive consequences in the aftermath of the Pahalgam mass...