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NDTV
30-07-2025
- Politics
- NDTV
"Congress Gave Away PoK, BJP WIll Get It Back": Amit Shah In Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued a strong response to the Special discussion on Operation Sindoor in Rajya Sabha today -- complete with a message to terrorists, a promise to "get back Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir" and multiple jibes at the Opposition, especially the Congress. There was also a chilling detail from the minister about Operation Mahadev, in which, the government said, the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack was killed. "After Pahalgam terror attack, I had received a lot of calls from the relatives of the people who were killed. They requested me to kill these terrorists by firing bullet to their heads. Our officials killed them by shooting on their heads," said the minister. "The identity of 3 terrorists killed in Op Mahadev established Lashkar-e-Taiba's hand in Pahalgam attack," added Mr Shah, who had spent the night confirming that it was indeed the Pahalgam terrorists who were killed in the encounter with security forces near Srinagar on Monday with the help of ballistic reports. The government had said the bullet casings recovered from the spot had a 99 percent match with the casings found in Pahalgam. "I want to give a strong message that Kashmir will be free of terrorism," Mr Shah told the Upper House this evening. "I also met family members of Pahalgam terror attack... they all were wailing at the loss of their loved ones... Terrorists had killed their family members after asking their religion," he said. The Home Minister's speech was preceded by protests by the Congress, which questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not present in the house and replying to the discussion. The party then staged a walkout, skipping the minister's response. Unperturbed, the minister delivered a jibe: "The Congress gave away Pak-occupied-Kashmir to Pakistan, but BJP govt will get Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir back... Till now, they have not done anything to stop cannot listen to anything."
Time of India
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Terror infrastructure in Pakistan & POK still ‘fully intact', say Army officers
NEW DELHI: The terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pak-occupied-Kashmir 'remains fully intact', with the main training camps in the hinterland and 'launch pads' along the Line of Control (LoC) still very much in place, senior Army officers said on Tuesday after the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam. The massacre comes soon after Pak Army chief General Asim Munir last week claimed Kashmir was Islamabad's 'jugular vein', while invoking the two-nation theory. 'Our stance is absolutely clear — it (Kashmir) was our jugular vein, it will be our jugular vein, we will not forget it. We will not leave our Kashmiri brothers in their struggle,' he said. India had, of course, rubbished the comments. The Army HQ in Delhi, especially military operations directorate, was assessing the latest situation till late on Tuesday. 'Pak-trained terrorists are using other routes to sneak into J&K since strong counter-infiltration grid along the 778-km LoC has made it tough for militants there. Ten infiltration bids were foiled along LoC last year, in which 25 terrorists were killed,' a senior officer told TOI. Though there is no major Army deployment in Pahalgam area, a unit of its specialised counter-insurgency force Rashtriya Rifles in the region dispatched a few columns as soon as news of the massacre came in the afternoon. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Co-Founder of Google Brain, Andrew Ng, Is Reported To Have Read Every... Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Officers said the 'low-cost, high-impact' strike was probably carried out to coincide with US Veep J D Vance's trip in India as well as PM Modi's visit to Saudi Arabia, the most prominent Islamic country around the globe, to garner global attention. With 144 terrorists being killed in J&K in last two years, terror outfits were looking for a big strike to mark their presence. 'The terror infrastructure in Pakistan and PoK, with the so-called strategic assets like LeT, JeM, UJC and Al Badr, jihadi seminaries and madrassa networks, remains fully in place,' he added. 'As was evident from Gen Munir's recent rant against India, Pakistan was not happy with improving situation in J&K, with 2.9 million tourists visiting it last year surpassing previous records,' he said.
