You’ve committed a huge mistake: PM Narendra Modi to Pakistan after Kashmir attack
Political programmes of PM Modi and other BJP leaders including party president Amit Shah have been cancelled in the wake of Pulawama terror attack.
india Updated: Feb 15, 2019 12:02 ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday delivered a sharp warning to Pakistan and terror groups operating from across the border after CRPF jawans were killed in a deadly terror attack in Kashmir’s Pulwama.
PM Modi, who was speaking to an event to flag off the country’s fastest train, said the country will give a “strong reply” to this attack. The ruling BJP and the opposition Congress have cancelled all political meetings of its top leaders in light of Thursday’s suicide attack carried out by Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Masood Azhar’s Jaish had rushed to take responsibility for the car bomb that ripped into a CRPF convoy that was feared to have killed 44 jawans and reduced their bus to a mangled heap of metal. Pakistan says it isn’t to be blamed for the attack.
But as many countries came together to condemn the deadly attack and Pakistan shrugged off blame, New Delhi underscored that Masood Azhar had been given full freedom by Pakistan to operate and expand his terror infrastructure “and to carry out attacks in India and elsewhere with impunity”. (More Updates)
PM Modi’s message to Pakistan came in this context.
Without naming the western neighbour in his speech, PM Modi said “if our neighbour, which is totally isolated in the world and thinks it can destabilise India through its tactics and conspiracies, then it is making a huge mistake.”
Turning to the Pak-based terror groups, PM Modi said, “I want to tell the terror groups that you have committed a grave crime. The perpetrators of terror will pay a heavy price. I assure the nation that we will punish the perpetrators of terror.”
Prime Minister Modi, who had minutes earlier chaired a meeting of the cabinet committee on security, also thanked all nations that “have supported us and condemned this incident in the strongest of terms.”
“A strong reply will be given to this attack,” said PM Modi.
“When all the nations will fight together against terror, it will be eliminated. The jawans have sacrificed their lives for the country. I assure everyone that we will take every step to bring the perpetrators of the crime to book,” said PM.
First Published: Feb 15, 2019 11:31 IST