PM Modi emphasized peace, telling Putin “this is not an era of war.” Three years later, after Operation Sindoor, he reiterated “this is not an era of terrorism.”
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi had urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek diplomacy over his special military operation in Ukraine he had told the Russian leader “it is not an era of war”, lines which reverberated around the globe and positioned India as a champion of peace and promoter of dialogue over conflict.
Fast forward three years from that Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Russia where Modi and Putin spoke, a war almost came to India’s door, led by an aggressive and startled Pakistani Army and the terrorists it backs.
“This is not an era of war but this is not an era of terrorism either,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, in his historic Monday speech following the successful completion of Operation Sindoor, a counter-terror operation where India struck terror hideouts inside Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), to avenge the deaths of 26 tourists, slaughtered in the hands of terrorists trained in and based out of Pakistan.
PM Modi in his Monday’s speech put Islamabad on notice and said that any part of Pakistani soil, which terrorists can use, is under India’s vigil and Indian forces remain ready to strike those places. “Every inch of land in which terror is encouraged by Pakistan is within the reach of our Armed Forces,” he said.
He said that Pakistan has to dismantle its terror infrastructure and that there is no other way to peace as India’s neighbour faces the threat of extinction due to decades of backing terrorists.
The Prime Minister said that India will respond to terror and it is the new normal. “Operation Sindoor is now India’s new policy against terrorism, a new line has been drawn. We have only kept in abeyance our operations against Pakistan, future will depend on their behaviour,” he further added.
Modi’s historic speech comes two days after Pakistan urged a ceasefire after assuming an aggressive military posture following Operation Sindoor. While India clearly mentioned that its armed forces only struck terror hideouts with precision, carefully ensuring that civilian and military installation are not struck, a rattled and startled Pakistani Army attacked Indian border cities and districts with drones, projectiles and shelling across the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB).
An uneasy ceasefire was reached on Saturday evening but the Pakistani Army also engaged in brazen violation of the truce pact, sending a drone and UAV barrage over Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Punjab.
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