Pakistan ceasefire completely India's call, no mediation: PM Modi during Op Sindoor discussion in Parliament
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, firmly asserted India will no longer differentiate between terrorists and their government sponsors, and will not bow to any nuclear threat while giving a befitting reply to the culprits.
He strongly refuted the Opposition's charge that the country had agreed to a ceasefire under US mediation, insisting that the decision was taken only after Pakistan's DGMO dialled his Indian counterpart, 'pleading' for a halt to air strikes after India destroyed nine Pakistani air bases on May 10.
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Speaking in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the May 6-10 operation against Pakistan, Modi alleged that the Congress has been soft on terror, often speaking the language of the neighbouring country on the issue.
In a 100-minute speech, Modi underlined that India has set a 'new normal' after the April 22 terror attack, in which 26 civilians were killed after being identified by their religion.
He blamed Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, on several decisions taken by the-then government, including the Indus Waters Treaty, which has been put in abeyance after the Pahalgam attack, and giving away Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir.
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He warned Pakistan that blood and water cannot flow together. 'I want to reiterate in this temple of democracy that Operation Sindoor is not over yet, it continues...This is a notice to Pakistan too,' Modi said.
'If Pakistan even imagines committing this audacity, a befitting response will be given to it,' he said.
The PM also broke his silence on US President
Donald Trump
's frequent assertions of mediating peace between the two nuclear rivals. 'No country told India to stop the operations,' said Modi. 'On the night of May 9, the US Vice President tried to talk to me several times over an hour. I was in a meeting with the military chiefs. I called back after that. He said Pakistan is going to launch a major attack. My reply was that if Pakistan has this intention, then it will prove very costly for it…We will respond to bullets with bombs,' he said, adding that nine air bases of Pakistan were destroyed after that.
He maintained that after the air strikes, the Pakistan DGMO called, pleading that the attacks be stopped and declaring that his country cannot bear any more suffering. 'We had achieved our target. I am stating again — our intent was only to attack the terror bases. We had said then that our attack is non-escalatory,' Modi said.
Amid interruptions from the Congress benches, the PM enumerated some key alterations in India's position on terror and dealing with Pakistan on the issue.
'The first is that if there is any terror attack on India, then it will respond to it on its own terms, in its own way, and at a time of its choosing. Second, India will not bear any nuclear blackmail. Third, we will not see handlers of terrorists and governments supporting terror as separate entities,' Modi said.
He noted that after the Pahalgam attack, the Pakistani military was aware that India would take some drastic steps and had therefore started issuing nuclear threats. On the intervening night of May 6 and 7, Indian military did what they apprehended and Pakistan 'could not do anything,' Modi said. Our forces, he said, had taken revenge in just 22 minutes.
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He noted that another milestone of Operation Sindoor was India striking deeper into Pakistan than before. 'There have been many wars with Pakistan but this is the first time that we went where we had not gone before. The terror camps in Bahawalpur and Muridke were razed to the ground,' said Modi.
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