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Stop promoting terrorism: Rajnath tells Pak

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Press Trust of India Nizamabad (Telangana)
Last Updated : Apr 02 2019 | 4:50 PM IST

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday asked Pakistan to stop promoting terrorism from its soil and warned India would exert so much pressure that Islamabad will be forced to take action against terror activities.

At the same time, Singh said India was ready to offer assistance to Pakistan if it alone is not able to stop terror activities from its soil.

Addressing an election rally here, the senior BJP leader said earlier India was considered a weak nation, but that notion has now changed in the entire world after Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.

"India is no longer a weak country and has emerged a strong nation," he said.

You have seen in Uri (September 2016), some terrorists from Pakistan killed 17 of our soldiers in their sleep and after that (terror attack) our Prime Minister took a decision.

And our soldiers crossed the Line of Control and launched a surgical strike on terror launch pads and eliminated them (terrorists), Singh said.

Referring to the February Pulwama attack in which 42 CRPF personnel lost their lives, the Home Minister said "the fidayeen terrorists are trained in Pakistan

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First Published: Apr 02 2019 | 4:50 PM IST

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