PM Modi's address to India and world was phenomenal!
Freelance journalist Ashali Varma has authored the biography of her father late Lt. Gen. PS Bhagat — 'The Victoria Cross: A Love Story'. She was executive producer with the International Commentary Service Inc, New York in 1990. She was the executive publisher of The Earth Times, New York (1992- 98). She has also worked as the editor of Choices Magazine, United Nations Development Programme. She writes on various issues including human rights, population and sustainable development. LESS ... MORE
No wonder world leaders admire PM Modi. If only they had the guts that our PM had to call out terrorists and a terror state as forcefully and decisively, the world would be a better place. PM Modi did not mince his words on Pakistan as a state sponsor of terror. He laid it all out for the civilised nations of the world to see, tonight, and reminded them of the cost we have incurred being a neighbour of a country that has not only sponsored terror but has nukes.
We did what we had to do with excellent leadership that in the last decade built up India to have the best defense systems in the world. We destroyed Chinese and Turkish drones, pulverised a ballistic missile sent from Pakistan to Delhi, and we degraded Pakistan's most valuable military assets in just two days.
This will be a case study for Western Powers in months ahead. We are a multidimensional democracy of 1.4 billion people but we stood behind our Armed Forces and it paid off. In the decade, PM Modi built up layer after layer of Make in India, defence systems. Even while we were overcoming the Covid crisis and feeding over 800 million people, we built up our economy, we got the digital payments admired by the world, and came out of the shadows of a 'Fragile Economy' to become the fourth largest in the world.
Step by step, we built up our defence systems that in the last four days saved, our cities, our people from attacks from a rogue state. It was done so effectively that Pakistan was brought to its knees literally begging for a ceasefire. But before this happened, Pakistan's army, airforce and military bases, were totally comprised and effectively taken out of action.
It took America 20 years and trillions of dollars to wage a war against terrorism. It took us less than four days. America was not fighting against a highly militarised and nuclear country, India was. A country that had attacked Mumbai, that sponsored and paid terrorists to take us down not once but several times. A country that has an army that pays and trains its soldiers on Jihad. A country that is called Pakistan, which is run by terrorists in uniform and deceives even its allies to keep the dollars flowing.
PM Modi was the first leader to stand up to this and say – Enough is Enough.
For those who still give succour and protect such evil, I tell them take a lesson from India. We are a democracy, not like China and Turkey, we also learnt the hard way with four wars and endless terror attacks.
It is not to late to support good against evil. You just need to wake up and see the world around you and realise it can also be done in a democratic society. You can win against EVIL, if you have the political will and the aptitude to destroy it.
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