Thane, April 30 -- Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday defended his "giving religious angle harmful" remarks regarding the deadly Pahalgam terrorist attack and said that his statement was interpreted in a "wrong way".

He also advocated the call for a special assembly session in Maharashtra to discuss the terror attack, which left 26 people dead and injured many.

"My statement on the terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir was shown in the wrong way. I had said that the terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir should not be given a Hindu-Muslim communal colour. It is an attack on our country, and the central government should take strict action against the terrorists," Pawar told reporters in a news conference he...