India, May 8 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday justified India's strikes against terrorist sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), saying New Delhi acted because Islamabad-backed terrorists attacked Indian tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

"They are justified because, yet again, Pakistan-based terrorists, almost armed, financed and guided from Pakistan, have come to our country and killed innocent civilians," he told an Australian news channel.

Tharoor described India's action as a "sensibly calibrated response" and said it demonstrated that "a price is to be paid for this kind of conduct".

"This is the pattern there. This is a state that sponsors terrorism in the most vile manner, and its response absol...