Operation Sindoor that dismantled terror infrastructure in Pakistan was not only an operation but a doctrinal change and a policy against terror, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today in a televised address, his first since India fired cruise missiles at terror facilities in Pakistan and PoJK.
Operation Sindoor has not ended; it will be an ongoing and firm act against terror attacks sponsored by states on Indian citizens, PM Modi said.
He echoed the message the senor officers of all three armed services gave the country in the last two days – “this is a new normal”. India will hit terror squarely in the breast if our citizens are attacked.”
He said there would not be “nuclear blackmail” effective in India.
The Prime Minister’s speech matters. It shows that India will react with fury again, if the state-sponsored terrorism damages any Indian.
According to the experts, the comments from Prime Minister himself is a change of a gigantic proportion in India’s policy against terror. India has already experienced various terror attacks with cross borders relationships.
The PM, Modi in public declared the entire terror machinery of Pakistan, and labelled Bahawalpur and Muridke as “universities of terror”.
We will not separate terrorists and government. The world has witnessed as how the Pakistani army officers attended terrorist’s funeral. This is massive evidence of the state sponsoring terrorism, PM Modi said.
We will take-strong measures to safeguard India. Operation Sindoor has written history. We demonstrated strength at the desert and the mountains and demonstrated the potential in new age warfare,” he said.
Prime Minister said terrorists could never have thought India would even dare to do this, but when the nation is together and ‘Nation First’ is the guiding principle, strong decisions will be made, and effective outcomes are achieved.
He said India’s missile and drone attacks on terrorist centres in Pakistan had not only devastated their infrastructure but equally their morale. He noted that destinations such as Bahawalpur and Muridke had exploited their existences as hubs of global terrorism, tying them to bombings across the world; particularly the 911 attacks on the US, London bombings and decades’ worth of terror attacks in India.
India’s operation liquidated more than 100 terrorists including major ones who conspired openly against India for decades, PM Modi added, confirming that the leadership that organized threats against India had also been quickly neutralized, he concluded.
Pak cried to the world to find ways to peace”: PM Modi’s Top Quotes
Having emphasised that India will not accept any “nuclear blackmail”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, in his first speech to the nation after the lull in India-Pakistan hostilities, said that Operation Sindoor against Pakistan has only been kept on the back burn.
The Prime Minister said India is monitoring closely Pakistan and what it is doing.
He added that terror and talk cannot go together. You cannot marry terror and trade; you cannot also mix blood and water. Read here for India-Pakistan Ceasefire Live Updates.
PM Modi went even further, saying this is not an ear of war but it is not also an era of terrorism.
These are the best quotes of Prime Minister’s speech:
- The Country’s potentials and strength were made. First, I want to salute forces, paramilitary and intelligence agencies. On behalf of every Indian I salute the soldiers.
- We left our forces a free hand.
- Operation Sindoor does not represent a name, but an expression of our people’s sentiments. It is an undivided promise of justice, (Ye nyay ki akhand pratigya hai)
- On 22s April the civilians are brutally killed. They asked them of their religion and murdered them before children. To me it affected me much. After this attack national desire was for strong action against terrorism.
- Forces carried out precision attacks on terrorists in Pak
- Over the course of 3 days we have done unimaginable damage to Pakistan.
- Nobody had visualised the scale of our action
- *Our missiles and drones have terrorized terrorists
- Bahawalpur and Muridke are terror universities.
- We have eliminated the terror universities.
- More than a hundred terrorists killed in attack.
- War was on the Pakistan prepared border, India attacked Pakistan on its chest
- The Indian missiles hit with precision and killed Pak’s air base
- Pakistan was looking for a way out. It pleaded with the world to come up with ways to peace
- We have only delayed our military action our action will depend on Pakistan’s next step
- World has seen ugly face of Pakistan
- Officers of Pakistan army were present at terrorists funeral.
- The world is watching as Made-In-India weapons are tested in 21st century warfare. We ought to unite against terrorism.
- Terror and talk cannot co exist. There can never be terrorism and trade in any combination. And Water and blood may not flow together too
- Terror will consume Pakistan one day.
- Pakistan is going to have to cleanse terror for its own sake.
- If we ever talk to Pak, it will be on terror and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir only
- Road to peace also goes through power
- Use of power important when needed
Future Talks With Pakistan Only On PoK, Terror: PM Modi
India will have no talk with Pakistan on the Jammu and Kashmir issue – except to deconstruct its terrorist platform and return Pak-occupied Kashmir – Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday night in his first address since a truce stopped the almost 100-hour war.
In his 22-minute speech the PM took aim at the Pak government and army for backing terrorism and told Islamabad “one day this will wipe (you) out”. He also warned Pak – as other Indian governments have done in the past – that Kashmir cannot be considered a stand-alone problem.
There can be no terror and talks, terror and trade, and no terror and no water. When we ever speak to Pakistan, it will be only on terror and PoK, he stressed.
The PM’s comments come ahead of talk that Pakistan attached ‘conditions’ to the cease fire, including the re-activation of the Indus Waters Treaty India suspended as part of non-military post Pahalgam measures.
Such conjecture has been flatly denied by India and Mr Modi drove that denial home tonight.
The ceasefire is subjective, sources had told NDTV, so long as Pakistan doesn’t break the agreement. India, the sources said, will not shift on the 65-year-old water-sharing deal.
There was also no tie for J&K, sources stressed.
It has long been in India’s accusations against Pakistan that the latter is bankrolling and training militants to carry out terror attacks in India as part of its attempts to illegally swallow J&K.
Pakistan has once again – repeatedly — denied any link to terrorists and/or terror groups responsible for attacks on India, and reiterated that it does not have and fund terrorism.
India, however, has展 cited a mounting heap of evidence of the Pak deep state’s links to terror attacks on its soil, such as the 2001 attacks on Parliament and the 2011 atrocities against civilians in Mumbai and the 2016
The investigation on already been throwing up Pak links in cases of Pahalgam attack also; three are of the five terrorists and the Resistance Front which is a proxy of the Pak-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group has said it carried out the attack. Pakistan’s effort to alter that story – at a behind closed doors United Nations Security Council meeting this month – was futile.
Last week, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri also made connections between Pak and former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden who was gunned down by US special forces in his Pakistani compound and Pak Army officers attending a ‘state funeral’ for terrorists who were killed in Operation Sindoor.
Op Sindoor was India’s punch back, the military retaliation for Pahalgam – precision surgical strikes against 9 terror camps located on Pak and in PoK; the command and control bases of LeT, that of Pak-based Jaish-e-Mohammed.
For several years many friendly countries, international bodies have extended offers of mediationu also according to Pak desires to bring the parties of the Kashmir issues together. As for India this has not in any way changed; Kashmir being a bilateral matter, to be resolved directly with Pakistan.
In his first term as US President Donald Trump also made an offer, saying (falsely) that Mr Modi asked him to intervene. Mr Trump said this when then Pak PM, Imran Khan, stood by his side.
This, India’s External Affairs Ministry swiftly denied, saying “no such request has been made” and that any relations with Pak would require a stop to cross-border terrorist activity.
On a second term, Mr Trump appeared to restate the offer Sunday, saying “I will work with you both to see if, after a ‘thousand years’ a solution can be arrived at concerning Kashmir”.
Even this time, the US government then back tracked; on the face of it, the State department demanded that India and Pak entered “direct dialogue” to iron out differences and worked out “improved communication”.
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