30 July,2025 08:26 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Union Home Minister Amit Shah. PICS/PTI
Participating in a special discussion in the Parliament on Operation Sindoor and Pahalgam terrorist attack, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that Pakistan was the root of all terrorism, and that the neighbouring nation was a mistake committed by the Congress.
"Had they rejected Partition, there would have been no Pakistan," he added. Shah said a blunder by the main opposition party led to the creation of Pakistan and claimed that Pak-occupied Kashmir was the legacy of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Shah also slammed successive Congress governments for failing to capitalise on opportunities to reclaim lost territories from Pakistan and wondered how the opposition party was targeting the Modi government for not launching an all-out war against Islamabad.
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge
"All roots of terrorism lead back to Pakistan. And Pakistan itself is the result of the Congress party's blunder. Had they not accepted the idea of partition, Pakistan would never have come into existence," Shah said. Had the Congress opposed partition, the problem of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir would never have occurred, he said.
Talking about Operation Sindoor, he said Indian forces attacked targets 100 km inside Pakistan and India could expose state sponsored terrorism in Pakistan. He said India's armed forces crippled Pakistan's defence systems in such a manner that the neighbouring country had no choice but to request India to halt attacks.
"In 1948, Indian armed forces were in a decisive position to take back Pakistan occupied Kashmir but then PM Jawaharlal Nehru declared unilateral ceasefire," he said. In 1971, Shah said, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered and India had 15,000 sq km of Pakistan territory under control, but still PoK was not taken back.
During the 1962 war with China, then PM Nehru bade goodbye to Assam in a speech on Akashvani, he said. Shah said between 2005 and 2011, there were 27 terrorist attacks but what did the Congress government do, they just sent dossiers to Pakistan.
Shah said the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) was scrapped by the then Manmohan Singh government in its first cabinet meeting after coming to power in 2004. "The country deserves to know who benefitted from Congress repealing POTA? Those opposed to POTA will never appreciate Narendra Modi's anti-terror policies," he said.
Shah claimed that three of the terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam massacre have been eliminated by security forces in a joint operation by the Army, CRPF and Jammu and Kashmir Police near Srinagar. The terrorists were killed Monday in an operation dubbed Mahadev but officials had held back in identifying them conclusively as the Pahalgam attackers.
Shah said the identity of the terrorists was confirmed by those detained for sheltering and providing them with food ahead of the Pahalgam attack. The empty cartridges found at Pahalgam and those after test firing by the guns recovered from the terrorists were matched by the forensic lab, Shah said. The ballistic report is with him, he added. Shah said security forces had recovered Pakistani voter IDs of two of the killed terrorists as well as chocolates made in Pakistan and the weapons.Agencies
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said Amit Shah must take responsibility for the "security lapse" which led to the Pahalgam terror attack, and demanded that accountability be fixed. The Congress chief attacked the government and took a jibe at PM Narendra Modi's unscheduled visit to Pakistan in 2015. Kharge further said the PM should have been present at an all-party meet instead of campaigning in Bihar, and questioned Modi's sincerity towards national security. Demanding accountability, the he said the government should admit its âlapses' and âfailure' in stopping terror attacks. He further accused the Modi govt of being arrogant.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that Operation Sindoor will continue stating, it is a notice to Pakistan that India will always act till Pakistan stops attacks. No country in the world has stopped India from taking action in its defence against terrorism, he said. But lamented that while the nation got support from the entire world, the Congress could not stand behind the valour of the country's soldiers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in Lok Sabha. PIC/PTI
Modi said Pakistani airbases hit by India "are still in ICU" and the masterminds of the April 22 terror attack are still having sleepless nights. "India got support from the entire world, but it is unfortunate that the Congress did not support the valour of our soldiers. Congress leaders targeted me for political gains but their frivolous statements ended up discouraging our brave soldiers," said Modi.
The PM noted that India called out Pakistan's nuclear bluff and showed the world that "we will not bow down to nuclear blackmail". "Pakistan knows they have to pay a huge price for any misadventure. India will come for them."
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the government of lacking the political will to support the Indian armed forces and claimed it revealed sensitive details about Operation Sindoor to Pakistan.
"Rajnath Singh said Operation Sindoor began at 1.05 AM and that by 1.35 AM, India had already called Pakistan to inform them that we had hit non-military targets and that we did not want escalation," Gandhi said.
The Congress leader claimed that the DGMO was instructed to seek a ceasefire just 30 minutes after the launch of the operation. Gandhi also accused the government of undermining the morale and effectiveness of the armed forces by imposing limitations.
Attacking PM Modi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said leadership is not just about taking credit but also taking responsibility, and claimed that US President Donald Trump announcing the ceasefire between India and Pakistan reflects the PM's "irresponsibility".
The Congress MP said HM Shah talked about Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, even her mother's tears but did not answer "why the war was halted at a time when the enemy had nowhere to go".
Was no government agency in the know that such a dastardly terror attack is going to happen and a plot is being hatched in Pakistan, she asked. "It is a big failure of our government and intelligence agencies."
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