PM Modi Warns Pakistan: Army and Economy Will Pay Heavy Price for Every Terror Attack

PM Modi Warns Pakistan: Pakistan and its economy will have to pay a heavy price for every terror attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, asserting that Pakistan had no option, but resort to terrorism as a weapon against India as it could never win in a straight fight.

“Pakistan will have to pay a heavy price for every terrorist attack ... Pakistan’s army will pay it, Pakistan’s economy will pay it,” PM Modi addressed in a public meeting in Palana, around 20 kms from Bikaner on the Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan, also said that retention of water from river over which India has rights is not possible for Pakistan and that there is no scope for talks with Pakistan.

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PM Modi said this at his first public meeting in Rajasthan after Operation Sindoor, the pre-dawn strikes conducted by Indian armed forces in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7 following the May 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed.

PM Modi said Operation Sindoor was the epitome of a new India that would strike at the roots of terror, and make terrorists and their sponsors pay heavily for spilling Indian blood.

“The shots were fired in Pahalgam but they pierced the hearts of 140 crore citizens. We vowed to finish the terrorists. With your blessings and the valour of our armed forces, we fulfilled our resolve,” he said.

“The world and the enemies of the country have seen what happens when ‘sindoor’ (vermilion) turns into ‘barood’ (gunpowder),” he said.

“Those out to wipe out ‘sindoor’ were reduced to dust,” he said, adding that “not blood but sindoor runs in my veins.”

PM Modi said that the armed forces had been given a free hand, and they reduced Pakistan to its knees. “Those who carried out the terror attack on April 22, we destroyed their terrorist bases in 22 minutes.”

He said Operation Sindoor is not an act of vengeance but a fresh expression of justice, it was the embodiment of the new India. “First we took the attack to their home… now we strike them outright,” he said, adding that this was India’s new policy to eradicate terror.

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“First, India will give a befitting reply to any terror attack. The time, place and manner will be of our armed forces’ choosing and we will set the rules. Second, India has called the nuclear bluff and won’t be cowed down and third, India won’t differentiate between terror masterminds and governments that support terror. Pakistan’s bogey of state and non-state actors will not work anymore,” he said.

Modi emphasized that India has taken the initiative to bring Pakistan to the attention of the world and mentioned the nine delegations of MPs and foreign policy specialists that will travel to various nations to inform the world about Pakistan's situation.

PM Modi claimed that Pakistan attempted to target Bikaner's Nal Air Force base, where he had landed from Delhi, during the fighting that followed India's May 7 strikes.

“Pakistan has also tried to make this a target but they failed to damage this airbase. There is a Rahim Yar Khan airbase situated on the other side of the border. It is in ICU. Don’t know when it will open? India’s forces have destroyed this air base.”

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