Pakistan PM Sharif reaffirms his willingness to talk with India on all issues
India has made it clear that it will only have a dialogue with Pakistan on the return of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the issue of terrorism.
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‘Showed Pakistan its ‘1,000 cuts' policy will not succeed': In J-K, Rajnath Singh says Operation Sindoor was a warning
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Time of India
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- Time of India
'I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the war between India and Pakistan': Trump does it again
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Time of India
2 hours ago
- Time of India
Rajnath Singh warns of disastrous consequences if Pakistan backs more terror attacks
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday issued a strong warning to Pakistan, saying any future terrorist attack on Indian soil would have 'disastrous' consequences. He declared that Operation Sindoor , under which India struck terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is not over and that India is ready to take any necessary action against terrorism. Speaking to troops of the Northern Command in Udhampur after joining them for International Yoga Day , Singh said Operation Sindoor had sent a clear message to Pakistan that its strategy of inflicting 'a thousand cuts' on India would not succeed. 'Operation Sindoor is not over yet... through this operation, we have told Pakistan that continuing terrorism against India will not be tolerated and the response will get from bad to worse,' Singh said. He was accompanied by Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi. 'Operation Sindoor was a natural progression of 2016 surgical strike and 2019 air strike (across the border). We conveyed to Pakistan that its policy of thousand cuts against India will not terror attack on the soil of India will prove disastrous for Pakistan. India is ready to take any type of action against terrorism,' Rajnath Singh said. Also Read: Pakistan's Dy PM Ishaq Dar finally admits they asked for ceasefire Live Events Operation Sindoor was carried out during the night of May 6 and 7, in retaliation to the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people, most of them tourists. Under Operation Sindoor, Indian armed forces targeted terror infrastructure across the border in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. SCO visit likely, tensions ahead of Qingdao summit Meanwhile, Singh is likely to visit China next week to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), ET had reported on June 17. If confirmed, it will mark the first visit to China by a senior Indian minister since ties between the two countries sharply deteriorated due to the border standoff along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, which began in May 2020. Also Read: Indo-Pak deadlock in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation over Pahalgam, Jaffar attacks PTI cited sources saying that New Delhi and Beijing are currently working to finalise Singh's travel plans. The SCO defence ministers' meeting is scheduled to take place in Qingdao from June 25 to 27. The meeting comes at a time when the Pahalgam terror attack has become a contentious issue within the SCO, which is currently under the Chinese presidency. India has asked that a mention of the April 22 attack be included in one of the SCO outcome documents, according to an ET report. In response, Pakistan has demanded that the same document also refer to the Jaffar Express hijacking and an attack on a bus by Baloch rebels. Separately, last Saturday, India had distanced itself from the SCO's statement on the Iran-Israel conflict. The government said it had already articulated its position on the matter and did not support the joint statement.
