Rajnath's Blatant Reply to Pakistan

Mr. Rajnath Singh has cautioned Pakistan that any terrorist act it dares to commit will be considered as an act of war and will give a befitting reply. Therefore, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who is engaged in talks with India, will have to understand that India will not tolerate terrorism in any form, so first he will have to convince his army leader Field Marshal Asim Munir that his army should give up the habit of nurturing terrorists. Because the condition of Pakistan has now become such that it has become difficult to differentiate between terrorists and soldiers. What else can be said about a country whose army attends the funeral of terrorists and salutes them? India has responded to the terrorist incident in Pahalgam on April 22 through Operation Sindoor, which is not over yet.

In 1999, when the BJP-led NDA Vajpayee government was at the Centre, the then Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had promised India that Pakistan would not allow its soil to be used for terrorism against India. That year, the Prime Minister was the late Prime Minister. Atal Bihari Vajpayee went to Lahore. This agreement between the two countries is known as the Lahore Declaration. There was an agreement on peaceful coexistence. But the regime in Pakistan was overturned this year and the government was captured by Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf and after this there was a Kargil War between the two countries. After the Kargil conflict, Musharraf also became the President of Pakistan. After becoming President, Musharraf made his first foreign visit to India, but he had to return empty-handed from here because India clearly said that if there is a dialogue, it will be only on terrorism. After this, terrorists from Pakistan were involved in many incidents in India and in November 2008 they crossed all limits and massacred 166 civilians in Mumbai. At that time, Dr. Manmohan Singh's government was in power at the Centre. But seven months later, he was killed. Manmohan Singh made an abrupt change in India's position and held talks with the then Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh and issued a joint communique in which terrorism was described as an international problem and Pakistan itself was also a victim of it. The communique also referred to Pakistan's Balochistan province where anti-Pakistan violence was taking place. India also accepted the demand for an investigation into the violence here. This was a qualitative change in India's position because earlier India had never accepted that India has any role in Balochistan. At that time, there was a People's Party government in Pakistan, whose leader is Bilawal Bhutto today. But this is the India of 2025 and it is Shri Narendra Modi's government at the Centre whose tough attitude towards Pakistan is known to the whole world. Therefore, what Shri Rajnath Singh is saying is a stone slab and is enough to awaken Pakistan. The Modi government has responded to Pakistan's terrorist activities not once but three times by entering its house. For a terrorist country like Pakistan, it is enough for the Defense Minister to say that this time if Pakistan commits any terrorist incident in India, then the Indian Navy can show its valor and divide this country into not two but four pieces because when the Indian Navy came into action during the Bangladesh war of 1971, Pakistan was divided into two pieces.

Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has made India's stand clear by saying that if Pakistan wants talks with India, it will have to first hand over terror leaders like Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar to India so that they can be brought to the doorstep of law. Hafiz Saeed is the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and was a patron of the terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba. Whose name has now been changed to 'Jamaat-ud-Dawa', while 'Masood Azhar' is the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed. The implication of the Defence Minister's statement is that India can talk to Pakistan only if it first agrees to give up terrorism and vows not to allow its territory to be used for it. At the same time, he has also warned Pakistan that if it allows terrorists to flourish on its soil, one day it will be ruined itself. Rajnath Singh is considered to be a very measured leader, so his statement will have to be taken very seriously by Pakistan and it has to think that without giving up terrorism, it cannot persuade India for talks. At the same time, it will also have to talk about its occupied Kashmir, which it has illegally occupied since 1947.