The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, warned Pakistan on Monday that New Delhi would go back to “terrorist hiding places” through the border if there were new attacks against India and did not deter by what he called the “nuclear blackmail” of Islamabad. “
Modi’s first public comments since the Indian Armed Forces launched attacks on what New Delhi said they were “terrorist camps” on the border last week indicated a hardening of India’s position on ties with their neighbor, which were ice cream even before the last fighting.
Pakistan denies the Indian accusations that support the militants who attack him and says that the places affected by India last week were civil sites.
Modi spoke two days after the neighbors with nuclear weapons agreed to stop the fire, announced by President Donald Trump.
The truce was achieved after four days of intense fire exchanges when the old enemies attacked the military facilities of others with missiles and drones, killing dozens of civilians.
The military confrontation began on Wednesday, when India said that he launched attacks to nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir after an attack against Hindu tourists by Islamist militants in Indian Kashmir last month last month.
Islamabad denied any link with the attack and requested a neutral investigation.
“If there is a terrorist attack against India, an adequate response will be given … In our terms,” said Modi, speaking in Hindi in a televised direction. “In the next few days, we will measure every step of Pakistan … what kind of attitude will adopt Pakistan.”
“India will attack precisely and decisively in the terrorist hiding places that are developed under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” he said, and listed the conditions of New Delhi to hold conversations with Islamabad and lift curbs imposed after the Kashmir attack.
“The position of India is clear: terror and conversations cannot go together; terror and trade cannot go together. And water and blood cannot flow together,” he said, referring to a pact that shared the water between the two countries that New Delhi has suspended.
There was no immediate response to his comments from Islamabad.
Hindu-Mojority India and Muslim Pakistan govern part of the Himalayas region of Kashmir, but they claim it in its entirety. They have fought two of their three wars since Independence in 1947 on the region and there have been several other more limited outbreaks, even in 2016 and 2019.
The last military conflict between the residents of South Asia in a spiral became alarming on Saturday, and there were a brief fears that nuclear arsenals could go into play, since the Pakistan army said that a superior body that supervises its nuclear weapons would be found.
But Pakistani defense minister said that meeting was not scheduled.
Military analysts said that this could have been the way Pakistan hints at their nuclear option, since Islamabad has a “first use” policy if its existence is under threat in a conflict.
Modi’s speech occurred hours after the heads of military operations of India and Pakistan spoke on the phone, two days after they agreed to high the fire.
“The problems related to continuing with the commitment that both parties should not shoot a single shot or initiate any aggressive and hostile action with each other,” said the Indian army.
“It was also agreed that both parties consider immediate measures to guarantee the reduction of borders and forward areas,” he added.
There was no immediate Pakistani reading of the conversations of the Heads of Military Operations.
In Washington, Trump said the leaders of India and Pakistan were “unwavering”, and the United States “helped much” to ensure the high fire, and added that trade was a “great reason” that countries stopped fighting.
“We are going to do a lot of trade with Pakistan … and India. We are negotiating with India at this time. We will soon negotiate with Pakistan,” he said, just before Modi’s speech.
Pakistan has thanked the United States for having negotiated the fire, while India, who opposes the participation of third parties in their disputes with Pakistan, has not commented on the role of Washington.
In Beijing, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that China, which also controls a small portion of Kashmir, was willing to maintain communication with its neighbors and plays a “constructive role in achieving a high integral and lasting fire” and maintaining peace.
India blames Pakistan for an insurgency in his backman that began in 1989, but Pakistan says that he only provides moral, political and diplomatic support to the puppy separatists.
