Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his Independence Day speech to send a strong message to Pakistan on K-issue, and to corner it with a B-bomb.
“People of Balochistan, Gilgit and PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) have thanked me a lot in past few days, I am grateful to them,” he said, adding that the Baloch people in Pakistan have thanked him for his firm stand against terror and for highlighting attacks against them by people within Pakistan.The reference was to his remarks two days back that “the time has come when Pakistan shall have to answer to the world for the atrocities committed by it against people in Baluchistan and PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir)”.
Pakistan, Modi said, should look into its own backyard before interfering in other countries’ business, and made it clear that India won’t tolerate terrorists being glorified either. Without naming Pakistan as such, he asked Islamabad to look into own backyard before interfering in other countries affairs.
Modi talked at some length about the killing of children in a 2014 terror attack in Peshawar.
“In (Indian) Parliament there were tears for all the innocents killed in Peshawar in the terror attack there by Pakistanis. Indian children were traumatized. This is the example of our humanity, but there are some countries who glorify terrorists,” the PM said in his speech in a dig at Pakistan leaders who have eulogised slain Kashmiri separatist militant Burhan Wani as a ‘martyr’.
India won’t tolerate terrorists being glorified, PM Modi said, and declared:”This country will never bend before terrorism.”