Border transgressions will be countered by surgical strikes, Shah warns Pakistan

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Time won’t be wasted in talks, transgressions to invite surgical strikes, Shah warns Pak

BQ: Jaisa samane se sawaal ayega, vaisa hi jawab diya jayega: Amit Shah, Home Minister

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 14

Home Minister Amit Shah today warned Pakistan that more surgical strikes could be carried out if there were transgressions at the Indian borders. “Jaisa samane se sawaal ayega, vaisa hi jawab diya jayega,” Amit Shah said while addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of the National Forensic Sciences University in Goa’s Dharbandora.

“This is no time to hold talks but to reciprocate, he said.

Amid the Opposition’s criticism that the BJP-led Centre had “failed to provide security to the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Shah said earlier (before 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over) whenever such incidents happened, there used to be a “polite request from the Delhi Durbar”.

“All this changed after there was an attack and our jawans were killed. For the first time (in 2016), India conducted a surgical strike and told the world that India would not tolerate such attacks… that no one could disrupt India’s borders,” Shah said, terming the surgical strike under PM Modi and late Manohar Parrikar, the then Defence Minister, an “important message to the world”.

“For many years, there were transgressions at our borders, terrorists used to enter and carry out terrorist activities. For the first time under the leadership of PM Modi and Manohar Parrikar, India established its position. There was a time when talks happened, now it is the time to reciprocate,” Shah said.

“Ek yug tha jab baat hoti thi, ab yug hai jaisa samne se sawaal ayega, vaisa hi jawab diya jayega,” he said.

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