‘Informed Pak about Balakot strike before media’: PM Modi highlights his ‘fight from front’ policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday (Apr 29) that he had informed Pakistan about the 2019 Balakot airstrikes even beforethe Indian media was apprisedof the attack. Citing the incident, Modi claimedthat hedoesn’tbelieve in attacking from the back and fights from the front. PM Modi said he himself postponed the announcement to the media as he wanted to inform Islamabad first.
"Ihad asked the forces to call the media and inform them, but I said before that I would inform Pakistan through telephone about airstrikes at night and the destruction caused, but Pakistan people did not come on the phone. So I asked forces to wait, and after informing them, we later disclosed to the world about airstrikes that happened during the night,"news agency PTI quoted the PM as saying.
PM Modiwas speakingat a political rally in Bagalkot in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Monday (Apr 29). He said he had dialled the neighbouring countrybut “theywouldn’ttake calls”.
Modi further stated that India under his leadership has become‘Naya Bharat’or New India, whichdoesn’tshy away from killing inside theenemy’sown territory.
2019 Balakot airstrikes
India had carried out Balakot airstrikes in February 2019, demolishing training camps of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed in the vicinity of the town of Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
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The Indian Air Force (IAF) deployed Mirage fighter jets and used five Israeli-origin Spice 2000 bombs to carry out the February 26 attacks.
The bombing came in response to the February 14 suicide attack in Pulwama in India’s erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnelwere killed.
‘Saffron terrorism’
While speaking at another rally inMaharashtra’sPune, PM Modi accusedIndia’smain opposition Congress party of coming out witha ‘saffron terrorism’theory,in a bid to paint Congress as an anti-Hindu party.
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Modi stated that Congress even had the plan ready to put the blame for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks on‘holy saffron’.
(With inputs from agencies)