{"id":17489,"date":"2019-04-21T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17489"},"modified":"2019-04-21T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T09:41:41","slug":"had-warned-pak-of-consequences-if-pilot-not-returned-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17489","title":{"rendered":"Had warned Pak of consequences if pilot not returned: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said he had warned Pakistan of consequences if it had not returned Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Addressing a poll rally at Patan in his home state Gujarat, he also took a jibe at NCP leader Sharad Pawar, saying if he is unaware of his next move, then how Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan can gauge what he will do.<\/em><\/p>\n

Following the air strike at Balakot terror camp in Pakistan, there was a dogfight between Indian and Pakistani fighter planes on February 27 in which IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was captured by the neighbouring country.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nBefore his jet was hit, the IAF pilot downed an F-16 fighter of Pakistan. He was released on the night of March 1 by Pakistan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Referring to it, Modi said after the pilot was caught, the opposition started seeking a reply from him over this.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe conducted a press conference and warned Pakistan that if anything happened to our pilot, you will keep telling the world that Modi did this to you,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA senior American official said on the second day that Modi has kept ready 12 missiles and might attack and the situation will deteriorate. Pakistan announced to return the pilot on the second day, else it was going to be a \u201cqatal ki raat\u2019,\u201d Modi said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was said by America, I have nothing to say about this now, I will speak about it when the time will come,\u201d he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

Asserting his government\u2019s commitment towards national security, Modi said whether the prime minister\u2019s chair remains or not, he has decided that either he will be alive or terrorists will remain alive.<\/em><\/p>\n

He also took a swipe at Pawar, who on Saturday said he was \u201cterribly afraid\u201d as to what Modi, who once called Pawar his mentor in politics, would do next.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSharad Pawar says I don\u2019t know what will Modi do. If he is unaware of what Modi will do tomorrow, how will Imran Khan know? Modi said.<\/em><\/p>\n

The prime minister also appealed to people of Gujarat to make the BJP victorious on all 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state, where polling will be held on Tuesday<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the duty of people of my home state to take care of the \u2018son of the soil\u2019, give all 26 seats in Gujarat to me,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy government will come back to power for sure, but if Gujarat doesn\u2019t give 26 seats (to BJP), the TV discussions on May 23 will be why it happened?\u201d he said. @PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said he had warned Pakistan of consequences if it had not returned Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman. Addressing a poll rally at Patan in his home state Gujarat, he also took a jibe at NCP leader Sharad Pawar, saying if he is unaware of his next move, then how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489","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=17489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}