New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said Operation Sindoor has taken the wind out of Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail, as he commended the Indian armed forces during his unannounced visit to the Adampur airbase in Punjab.
He also emphasised India has set a new “Lakshman Rekha” (red line) when it comes to the issue of terrorism.
“India’s Lakshman Rekha against terrorism is now crystal clear,” the Prime Minister thundered in his address to IAF personnel at the base. “If there is another terror attack, India will respond and it will be a decisive response.”
The Pakistan military had earlier claimed the base was destroyed along with the S-400 Triumf air defence system.
Speaking with the S-400 missile in the background, Modi said, “Our military took the wind out of Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail. And when we did this, the message reverberated across the heavens and the depths – ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.”
He said Operation Sindoor is not an ordinary military campaign “but a trinity of India’s policy, intent, and decisive capability”.
He said India is the land of both Buddha and Guru Gobind Singh, who declared, “I will make one warrior fight against 125,000… I will make sparrows defeat hawks… only then will I be called Guru Gobind Singh.”
In his speech, the Prime Minister said nine terrorist hideouts were destroyed and more than 100 terrorists eliminated during India’s Operation Sindoor.
The Prime Minister said the masterminds of terrorism now understand one undeniable consequence of provoking India—absolute destruction.
Asserting that any attempt to shed innocent blood in India would lead only to devastation of the perpetrators, he underscored the Pakistani army, which harbored these terrorists, has been decisively defeated by the Indian Army, Air Force, and the Navy.
“The Indian armed forces have sent a clear message to Pakistan—there is no safe haven left for terrorists,” he said.
“India has now decided three things. First, if there is a terror attack on India we will answer, we will do it in our own way, on our own terms, but we will answer. Second, no nuclear blackmail will be tolerated by India. Third, we will not separate the terrorists from the government [of Pakistan],” Modi said, while standing in front of the missile launchers of the S-400 Triumf, which Islamabad claimed they destroyed.
Modi’s C-130J Super Hercules aircraft landed on the very same airstrip that Pakistan had claimed to have bombed.
The Prime Minister saluted air warriors who defeated Pakistan’s “evil intentions”, especially as Islamabad’s armed forces tried their best to destroy various airbases across the country multiple times.
“Pakistan’s drones, UAVs, Pakistan’s aircraft and their missiles could not stand in front of India’s strong air defence systems and all of them were defeated,” said Modi.
The visit to Adampur Air Base is a strong message to Pakistan with the Prime Minister fact-checking the claims of Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the director general of the information wing of the Pakistani Army, who had at a number of press conferences claimed the destruction of the base.
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)
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