Defence Minister Rajnath Singh emphasized the Indian government’s readiness to pursue extra-territorial actions against terrorists seeking refuge in Pakistan. Singh asserted that the Indian government had executed the targeted killings of approximately 20 individuals in Pakistan over a span of four years as a strategic measure to eliminate terrorists residing abroad.
- “If terrorists from the neighboring country try to disturb the peace in Bharat or try to carry out terror activities in Bharat, we will give them a befitting reply,” Singh conveyed to the sources.
- “If they run away to Pakistan, we will enter Pakistan to kill them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken the truth… India has the capability and Pakistan has also started understanding that.”
- “India wants to maintain cordial relations with its neighbor. Look at our history. We have never attacked any country or even occupied an inch of the territory of any other country. This is India’s character…. if someone tries intimidating India by fomenting terror on our soil, they will not be spared.”
- Regarding Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir: “Be assured that the people of PoK will themselves demand that they be with India. You must have seen that there were a few demonstrations there since they want to merge with India. After the abrogation of Article 370, normalcy has returned to Kashmir and development has been fast-tracked.”
- On Arunachal Pradesh: “Arunachal Pradesh was a part of India, is a part of India and will always belong to India.”