Amid bitter politics of oneupmanship over the surgical strikes, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said all Indians including those who have raised doubts can share credit for the operation as it was done by the armed forces and not by any political party.
At the same time, he said that a large share of credit does go to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government for decision-making and planning.
“I don’t mind sharing the credit, including on surgical strike, with every countryman because it is done by our armed forces and not by any political party. So all Indians, including, those doubting it also, can share the credit,” he said at a function here.
He said sharing of credit will settle the nerves of many.
The Minister said he understands the sentiments of the people and they are satisfied now.
Several political leaders and parties have questioned the surgical strike and have sought proof. The Congress, while officially supporting the government over the strike, has also said that similar operations were undertaken during its tenure also.PTI
Amid frequent ceasefire violations by Pakistan and terror attacks in Kashmir, IAF chief Arup Raha today asserted that the armed forces are prepared to give a befitting reply to sub-conventional threats and any other challenge facing the country.
The Air Chief Marshal said that the armed forces “are there to deliver and they are doing the job” as he refused to comment on the political slugfest over the cross-LoC surgical strikes on terror camps.
His remarks came on a day when the Indian Air Force celebrated its 84th Foundation Day with a spectacular air display at Air Force Station Hindon in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district, 30 kms from here.
For the first time, India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft performed stunts at the air show, amid loud cheers from the audience.
In his customary address at the celebrations, Raha said, “World is in a flux today. Terrorists attacks in Uri and Pathankot show the troubled times we live today.”
In his message on official Facebook page of the IAF Indian Air Force, Power to Punish launched today, the Air Force chief said the force is operating some of the most modern weapons and equipments and the air warriors exercise ceaseless vigil of skies.
“We continue to train to take up any threat and are fully prepared to undertake any challenge in most befitting manner,” Raha said.
Asked later about increasing threat from Pakistan, he said the armed forces are well prepared to take on any sub- conventional threats.
Sub-conventional threats refers to proxy war that Pakistan indulges in against India through the use of terrorists.
Raha said that terrorists can always get better but the armed forces can neutralise them.
“With each incident, the forces are getting smarter and learning new lessons.” he said.
Replying to a query on the political war of words over the surgical strike, Raha said “the armed forces are there to deliver and they are doing the job
At least four persons were killed over 16 others injured today when two bombs targeted a train in Pakistan’s restive Balocistan province.
The blasts hit the Rawalpindi-bound Jaffar Express.
Police said that the bombs were planted on the track and exploded within a span of 20 minutes.
“Four persons were killed and 16 others injured in the attack,” said a police official.
Balochistan Chief Minister Nawaz Sanaullah Zehri condemned the attack and ordered the provincial police chief to arrest the culprits.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Baloch separatist, who want autonomy, often target the official property in the province.
Jaffar Express was also targeted in January in Mithri area of Balochistan’s Sibi district and bombing damaged its two carriage
Amid rising tension in Indo-Pak ties, Union Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the security situation with Home Ministers and senior officials of four states that border Pakistan.
Singh chaired the meeting attended by Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal, Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Brij Raj Sharma, an official said.
Senior BSF officials were present at the meeting here which reviewed security arrangements on the border in the wake of tension between India and Pakistan after surgical strike by army on terror camps across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Union Home Minister will also tour border areas of Rajasthan and visit outposts to assess the situation along the Indo-Pak border.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made, Barmer Collector Matadeen Sharma said.PTI
A day after steering clear of the controversy surrounding the ban on Pakistani artists in India, actress-politician Hema Malini today made her stand clear saying she does not support their presence in Bollywood.
The actress, who is also BJP MP from Mathura, said she will always stand by the soldiers, who are fighting for the country.
“I would like to say that I am 100 per cent with our jawans who are fighting and dying for our country do not support Pak artistes working here. Jai Hind!,” Malini wrote.
Praising the India defence services’ efforts, the 67-year-old actress said people should not ask for the proof of the surgical strike.
“Our army has done a great job with the surgical strikes and the whole country should be supportive of them. Why ask for proof of action? Unheard of!”
Malini, however, had tried to play safe on the issue yesterday, saying, “As an artiste, I appreciate their work but I don’t want to comment on whether they should live here or leave this country.
“Artistes are artistes whether they are from Pakistan or India. But it is unfortunate that they are from Pakistan. I must say that they are good artistes. They have performed well here in India,” she had said.
There has been a growing demand to ban Pakistani artistes like Fawad and Mahira Khan in the wake of Uri terror attack.
Raj Thackeray-led MNS had recently given an ultimatum to the artists to leave the country. They also threatened to disrupt the shooting of Bollywood films starring actors from across the border.
Bollywood seems divided on the issue. While Salman Khan, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Hansal Mehta, Om Puri and Nagesh Kukunoor have opposed the ban, celebrities like Randeep Hooda, Sonali Bendre and Nana Patekar have backed it.PTI
The Army has handed over to the government video clips of the cross-LoC surgical strikes as per laid down procedure, Union Minister Hansraj Ahir said today, amid a growing chorus that evidence of the operation on terror launch pads in PoK be made public.
Ahir, the Minister of State for Home, said there is a process for putting such issues in perspective which was duly followed by the Army as well as the government.
Separately, Kiren Rijiju, also a MoS for Home, said everyone should have faith in the government and allow the Army to take its own call.
“The laid down procedure has been followed. The DGMO briefed (about the surgical strikes). It was not the Defence Minister nor the Prime Minister and not the Home Minister. It was the DGMO who briefed (the media). That was the right thing to do and they (Army) did it.
“There was a time when written documents were submitted.
Now the times have changed. Now clips are given and the clips have been given,” Ahir told reporters.
The statements by Ahir and Rijiju came amid demands that government release the footage of Army’s recent surgical strikes on terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
“Have faith in the government and leave it to the Army,” Rijiju told reporters here when asked about the demand for release of proof of the surgical strikes by the Army.
A political slugfest erupted yesterday over the surgical strikes with Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam calling it “fake”, provoking stinging criticism from BJP even as his own party said it “totally dissociates” from his remarks.
As the government mulled options on the issue of release of the video footage of the surgical strikes, a debate raged with BJP leader Subramanian Swamy favouring putting out an edited version of the video on the operation while most experts spoke against it.
Rejecting the demand, the BJP attacked some Congress leaders and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal for raising questions over the strikes and accused them of giving a handle to Pakistan to advance its false propaganda.
The Congress, on its part, insisted that it never questioned the authenticity of the strikes but steered clear of the demand, including from within its own ranks, for the release of evidence, saying it would give appropriate advise in the best interest of national security if consulted by the government.
Swamy, a Rajya Sabha member, said anybody questioning the operation should prove prima facie evidence to support his allegation but added that an video should be released following a newspaper report today that gave details of the operation.
“I think they should edit the video of the logistics value of it and show the other part, showing explosions, the dead body… they have got in the video. So all these parts can be released,” he said.
Former army chief Gen V P Malik slammed those questioning the credibility of the strikes saying, “The video should not be released just because some stupid people have sought so.”
He told PTI it was “utter nonsense” that people are asking the army to prove the operation and wondered what is wrong with the political class.PTI
As Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa remained in hospital for nearly two weeks, the Madras High Court today asked the state government to inform it about the health condition of the AIADMK supremo by tomorrow.
The court also observed that an official release with regard to the health condition of 68-year-old Jayalalithaa, who has been undergoing treatment at a hospital here since September 22, will reduce the anxiety of the people.
The remarks were made by a division bench while hearing a PIL by social activist ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy, who sought a detailed report from the government on the health condition of Jayalalithaa.
The court asked Tamil Nadu’s Additional Advocate General C Manishankar to get back to it by tomorrow after consulting the government on the health condition of the chief minister.
Manishankar told the court that the corporate hospital had been issuing medical bulletins daily on her health condition and describing the treatments given to her.
But the court said though the hospital was releasing bulletins, being the chief minister of the state, some official release with regard to her health will reduce the anxiety of the people.
The petition has also sought release of photographs of the meeting she is said to have had with her cabinet colleagues and officials at the hospital.
The bench said that it is not passing any order on the PIL but directed the additional advocate general to consult the government on the matter.
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(AFP) Pope Francis announced he would “almost certainly” visit India and Bangladesh in 2017, as he wrapped up a three-day tour in the Caucasus and headed home to Rome.
Asked on board the papal plane what his plans for the coming year were, the Argentine pope confirmed he would join the big annual pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal next year.
According to Catholic tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared to three young shepherds six times over the course of the year 1917, the first time on May 13. The sanctuary will mark the centenary of the apparitions next year.
Francis’s predecessor Benedict XVI was the third pope to make the pilgrimage to Fatima in 2010, after Paul VI in 1967 and John Paul II who visited Fatima three times in 1982, 1991 and 2000.
Francis also said he would “almost certainly” visit India and Bangladesh, though he did not specify a date.
He then said he intended to visit an African nation, though he did not specify which it would be, adding that the choice would depend on the political climate.
The pontiff, who took the papal name Francis in homage to the famous Christian friar and his devotion to the downtrodden, has already visited a record 16 nations since March 2013, favouring nations outside the world’s more typical centres of attention.
“One understands reality better and sees oneself more clearly from the periphery than in the centre. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t visit big countries like Portugal or France, I don’t know,” he said.
To promote his upcoming project “Shivaay” Bollywood actor-director Ajay Devgn is planning to launch a comic book series inspired by the film.
The comic book is an adventure of a mountaineer named Shivaay who uses his wit, skill and expertise to overcome odds.
It (book) will be launched by Ajay and the cast of “Shivaay” on October 23 in Mumbai, a press release said.
The book is being scripted and designed by TBS Planet, a comics studio from Bangalore.Movie Get Out (2017)
“‘Shivaay’ the comic is totally different from the film but it has the flavour of adventure and the characteristics of the mountaineer.
“Usually the comic inspires the film, here our film has inspired a comic book series. We are happy to partner with Rajeev from TBS Planet to bring the spirit of Shivaay to comic book readers,” Ajay told PTI.
According to the press release, the story is based on a mission that Shivaay undertakes on the request of India Meteorological Department(IMD).PTI