India no longer helpless in wake of terror\, says PM Modi

ROUGH CUT - NO REOPRTER NARRATION Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (March 01) said that India was no longer helpless in the wake of terror and pledged to curtail the influence of terrorism.

Modi, who faces a general election in a matter of months, made the statement while addressing a public rally in India's southern Kanyakumari city.

He said his government had given full freedom to its armed forces "to do what they want".

Modi's government had on Tuesday (February 26) announced that Indian warplanes had destroyed a major training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the militant group that claimed responsibility for the Feb.

14 attack suicide bomb attack that killed 40 paramilitary police, in Pakistan which further escalated tensions between the two South Asian neighbours.