NEW DELHI – India will exercise all options, diplomatic or otherwise, towin a decisive battle against Pakistan which is responsible for Pulwamaattack, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Friday.
Describing Pakistan as a “rogue state”, he said it is not acting againstperpetrators of the attack, though the guilty have themselves admitted tothe attack and were taking credit for it.
Referring to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech, Jaitley said,”the head of the government says, give me actionable intelligence. You needan actionable intelligence if it is a blind offence, but here is a mansitting in your own country who owned up to the offence. So when there is aconfession…You have people sitting in your own country and admitting tothe offence and saying that yes we have done it and taking credit for it”.
Pakistan leadership, he said, is “riding a tiger on this issue and tigernever spares its own rider”. As many as 40 CRPF personnel died in aterrorist attack on February 14 at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
India today is extremely angry, he said, adding “in my lifetime, we haveseen wars, we have seen human tragedies, we have seen prime ministersassassinated by terrorists. But the kind of anger which has been there,even on previous occasions, the one this time is unprecedented”.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already stated that India will exerciseall its instruments at its commands, whether it is diplomatic or otherwise.
“Therefore, we have to act in a manner that this battle has to bedecisively won by us because Pakistan is not willing to give up itstraditional role in our neighbourhood as a rogue state,” the financeminister added.
“This is not a one week battle. It should be undertaken in various forms,”he said while speaking at the Global Business Summit here.
