India, May 27 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor issued a stern warning to Pakistan saying that India would retaliate strongly to any provocation. Tharoor, at a diplomatic forum in Guyana, clarified that India strongly believes in peace and the recent strikes against terror camps in Pakistan were purely retaliatory. He said that India did not want war.

Tharoor stated that Operation Sindoor, under which India destroyed 9 terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, were a response to the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam and not the beginning of a larger military campaign.

"We had no desire to convey that it was the opening salvo in what was meant to be a sort of protracted war," Tharoor said. "Each strike was r...