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Believe in peace but not over self-respect-Ready to give befitting reply-PM


Date:- 01 Oct 2018


India “staunchly” believes in peace, but its soldiers will give befitting reply to any attempt to destroy the country’s atmosphere of peace and progress, PM Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his monthly radio talk show Mann ki Baat.

Raking up the memories of the surgical strike carried out in 2016, the PM showered praise on the armed forces, hailing their valour and glorious heritage. While the PM added that Indians soldiers in the surgical strike “gave a befitting reply to the audacity of a proxy war under the garb of terrorism”, he also took a step forward to indicate to a wider policy on how to deal with adversaries of India’s peace and progress

Mann Ki Baat Says India ‘never eyed someone else’s territory maliciously’

India “staunchly” believes in peace, but its soldiers will give a befitting reply to any attempt to destroy the country’s atmosphere of peace and progress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in his monthly radio talk show Mann ki Baat.

Citing the surgical strike carried out across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016, Modi showered praise on the armed forces, hailing their valour and glorious heritage. He added that Indians soldiers involved in the surgical strike “gave a befitting reply to the audacity of a proxy war under the garb of terrorism”. Modi indicated a wider policy on how to deal with adversaries of India’s peace and progress.

“It has now been decided that our soldiers will give a befitting reply to whosoever makes an attempt to destroy the atmosphere of peace and progress in our nation. We staunchly believe in peace; we are committed to taking it forward… but not at the cost of compromising our self-respect and sovereignty of our nation,” he said.

Modi’s comments came a day after foreign minister Sushma Swaraj lashed out at Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly, dubbing the neighbour “an expert in trying to mask malevolence with verbal duplicity”. India also accused Pakistan of funding and glorifying terrorists — in an oblique reference to Jammu and Kashmir and slain militant Burhan Wani.

Last week, 25 hours after it was announced, India called off a proposed meeting between Swaraj and her Pakistan counterpart, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, citing the brutal killing of security personnel by Pakistan-based entities

in Jammu and Kashmir. It also took offence to the release of a series of Pakistani postage stamps that “glorified a terrorist and terrorism.”

In Islamabad, Qureshi had said, “The refusal of India shows the Indian government is facing internal pressure. It seems that India is already preparing for its elections due in the country next year.” The cancellation followed a verbal duel between Pakistan’s new premier Imran Khan and the Indian foreign ministry. Khan tweeted he had seen many “small men occupying big offices”.

Modi also took the opportunity to emphasise India’s long-standing commitment to peace and pointed out that New Delhi “has never eyed someone else’s territory maliciously. This in itself was our commitment and dedication towards peace.”

“India has always been resolutely committed to peace. In the two world wars fought in the 20th century, over a lakh of our soldiers made the supreme sacrifice that too in wars where we were not involved in any way,” he said.

Courtesy: Hindustan Times: 1st Oct 2018