New Delhi, July 30 (UNI) Home Minister Amit Shah today said ceasefire against Pakistan during Operation Sindoor did not happen on anyone’s request but Pakistan pleaded with India to stop the war.
“Ceasefire wasn’t on anyone’s request. Pakistan pleaded to stop,’’ the Home Minister said in Rajya Sabha during the debate on Operation Sindoor.
Opposition staged a walkout demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence in the House.
Dismissing Opposition claims on the ceasefire, he said the opposition is asking at whose intervention did the ceasefire take place. It didn’t happen on anyone’s request. ‘’Pakistan, brought to its knees, called our Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) and pleaded to stop,” he said.
He said that although terrorism and infiltration from Pakistan had not ended completely, the number of such incidents had declined. “I admit that even today Pakistan is able to do some terrorist attacks and there is infiltration, but the number of incidents is reducing,’’ he said expressing the government’s commitment to ending terrorism and infiltration.
Attacking the Congress of being responsible for the spread of terrorism in India because of vote-bank politics, the Home Minister said Congress has no right to ask the BJP questions about terrorism. The only reason terrorism spread in the country was because of Congress’ vote-bank and appeasement politics.
He highlighted the strong stand taken by the government against terrorism and said that earlier governments kept sending dossiers but Prime Minister Modi gave a reply to Pakistan with airstrike and surgical strike.
“Khauf paida ho gaya’’ (fear was instilled) in Pakistan, he said. “We attacked their terror camps, terror launching pads and training camps. But they considered it an attack on their country,” Pakistan attacked residential areas and Defence installations in India. India retaliated by destroying 11 of Pakistan’s Defence installations and airbases. After this, Pakistan was not in a position to fight back,” the Home Minister said.
