{"id":10272,"date":"2017-10-15T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T04:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2017-10-15T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T04:23:55","slug":"no-power-can-stop-us-resolving-kashmir-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=10272","title":{"rendered":"No Power Can Stop Us From Resolving Kashmir Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bardoli:<\/strong> Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said no power in the world can stop the government from resolving the Kashmir issue and hit out at Pakistan for its \u201cimpious\u201d activities against India.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singh said the NDA government has given a \u2018free hand\u2019 to the Army to act against \u2018terrorists\u2019 and give a befitting reply to any firing from across the border in Kashmir.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to say that nobody needs to be worried about Kashmir. No power in the world can stop us from resolving the issue,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Addressing a gathering here in Surat district as part of the BJP\u2019s \u2018Gujarat Gaurav Yatra\u2019, Singh attacked Pakistan saying it sends terrorists into India and wants to break the country.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan is our neighbouring state. Its name is \u2018Pak\u2019-istan, but it regularly indulges in \u2018napaak\u2019 (impious) activities, tries to break India and sends terrorists into India,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOur Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried his best (for peaceful resolution of bilateral issues) considering that Pakistan is our neighbouring state. He even went to Pakistan breaking all protocol, but Pakistan is not refraining from its activities. This can\u2019t continue for long,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The home minister said he has asked the Army to reply with bullets to Pakistani firings on the Kashmir border instead of showing the \u201cwhite flag\u201d (of peace).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have given a free hand to the Army. I have said you are free to act against terrorists,\u201d Singh said, adding this has resulted in a \u201crecord\u201d number of militants being killed in Jammu and Kashmir in 2016-17.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not need to tell you the numbers. Someines it is one (militant) in a day or two or four or six. The jawans of our Army keep greeting them with \u2018Jai Sri Ram.\u2019 It has never happened before that militants have been killed in such a large number,\u201d the Minister said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singh recalled how a few months after the Modi government came to power in May 2014, he had given standing orders to the BSF DG to stop the practice of showing \u201cwhite flags\u201d to Pakistan in response to their firings at the Indo-Pak border.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singh said he came to know about the practice after he talked to the BSF chief following news that five Indian citizens had been killed in firing by Pakistani personnel.<\/em><\/p>\n

He (The BSF DG) \u201ctold me it is an old practice to show white flag in response to Pakistani firing\u2026 this is to tell them that we want peace. I asked the DG as to what was Pakistan response to our flags being shown 16 times.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe said Pakistan did not show any white flag. On telephone I told him not to show white flag for the 17th time. And it is my standing order that while first bullet shall not be fired by India, if we receive even a single bullet, we will retaliate,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Singh said had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country\u2019s first deputy prime minister who launched a satyagrah (in support of farmers) during the British rule from Bardoli in 1928, been allowed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to act freely, India would not have been facing the Kashmir issue.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSardar Patel got Junagad and Hyderabad to become part of the country. Had Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru not stopped him from also deciding the fate of Kashmir, then, I think, the Kashmir issue would not have been before us today,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The BJP has launched the `gaurav yatra\u2019 to galvanise support ahead of the assembly elections in Gujarat. A number of BJP leaders and Union ministers have taken part in the campaign and addressed rallies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bardoli: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said no power in the world can stop the government from resolving the Kashmir issue and hit out at Pakistan for its \u201cimpious\u201d activities against India. Singh said the NDA government has given a \u2018free hand\u2019 to the Army to act against \u2018terrorists\u2019 and give a befitting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}