Rebuff to ‘self-styled Vishwaguru’, says Congress, on reports of Pakistan mediating in West Asia

The Congress connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) said that if reports of Pakistan being 1 of the intermediaries betwixt the U.S.-Israel and Iran are true, past they correspond a "severe setback" and "rebuff" to India.

The Opposition enactment claimed that successful spite of India's undoubted subject successes successful Operation Sindoor, the bittersweet world is that thereafter Pakistan's diplomatic engagement and communicative absorption has been "markedly superior to that of the Modi government".

Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said aggregate reports successful starring planetary media outlets person identified Pakistan arsenic 1 of the intermediaries being utilized betwixt the U.S. and Israel connected the 1 broadside and Iran connected the other.

"If these reports are true, they correspond a terrible setback and rebuff to India - and it is each attributable to the self-styled Vishwaguru," Mr. Ramesh said connected X.

"For implicit a year, it has been abundantly wide that successful spite of our undoubted subject successes successful Operation Sindoor, the bittersweet world is that thereafter Pakistan's diplomatic engagement and communicative absorption has been markedly superior to that of the Modi government," helium said.

Pakistan which was successful a hugely precarious situation, politically, socially, economically and globally, has received a caller lease of life, Mr. Ramesh said.

"President Trump warmly and repeatedly embraced the antheral whose incendiary and inflammatory rhetoric formed the backdrop to the Pahalgam panic attacks connected April 22 2025, and hosted Field Marshall Asim Munir doubly successful the White House (including for an unprecedented lunch). The Pakistani constitution has developed a cosy narration with President Trump's contiguous circle," helium claimed.

"Mr. Modi's ill-advised sojourn to Israel, that ended conscionable 2 days earlier the unprovoked US-Israel aerial assaults connected Iran began, volition spell down successful our governmental past arsenic a singularly disastrous prime - 1 that has made america retreat from a presumption wherever we could and should person mediated," the Congress person said.

The Prime Minister's "huglomacy" stands brutally exposed, helium said, adding that the state is being forced to wage a terms for this.

President Donald Trump connected Monday (March 23, 2026) said the U.S. was talking with a respected Iranian person and claimed the Islamic Republic was anxious for a woody to extremity the war, Mr. Trump, however, refused to sanction the Iranian person the U.S. is successful talks with to extremity the three-week-old war, asserting that the interlocutor was a apical idiosyncratic who is astir respected successful that country.

Speaking to reporters astatine the Palm Beach International Airport successful Florida, Mr. Trump made it wide that the U.S. was not successful talks with the 2nd Supreme Leader, a notation to Ayatollah Khamanei's lad Mojtaba Khamenei.

According to reports, Iran has denied being successful talks with the U.S., but admitted that immoderate countries successful the portion were making efforts to trim tensions.

Axios quality website quoted a U.S. root arsenic saying that Turkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan person been passing messages betwixt the U.S. and Iran implicit the past 2 days.

The Foreign Ministers of the 3 countries held abstracted talks with White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, the U.S. root told Axios.

The President said Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy for West Asia, and Jared Kushner spoke with their Iranian counterparts connected Sunday (March 22, 2026).

However, Mr. Trump declined to accidental to whom Mr. Witkoff was speaking, saying helium did not privation them to beryllium killed.