New Delhi, May 4: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Modi government has made it very, very clear that any threat of terrorism, cross-border terrorism, which comes from Pakistan, will get an appropriate response from India.
Answering questions from media persons in Bhubaneswar, the EAM said:
“Where Pakistan is concerned there is a history of cross border terrorism. Till the Modi sarkar came, we were tolerating it, we were turning the other cheek, we were not acting. After Modi-ji came things have changed; you saw Uri, you saw Balakote; so we have made it very, very clear today that any threat of terrorism, cross border terrorism, which comes from Pakistan, will get the appropriate response from India.”
On the boundary problems with China, he said:
“With regard to China, in the last four years attempt has been made to put pressure on us, by bringing lot of troops to the LAC. We have very strongly countered it. Today, thousands of troops of the Indian army are on deployment, along the LAC. We are there, we are strong, we are deployed; and action we have to take as per the circumstances. Our armed forces will naturally be the best judge of it.
“But I want to say this, when it comes to national security, Modi government will never make a compromise.
“It can be cross border terrorism from Pakistan, it can be pressure on the border from China, it can be terrorism we had in the past from the Myanmar border, before we did the land boundary agreement even from Bangladesh. We are very clear, Bharat First, security first, there is no compromise.”
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