Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday issued a stern warning to Pakistan amidst ongoing Tension between India and Pakistan. Jaitley on Tuesday said if the US can kill Osama in Pakistan, then why can’t India.
‘A week is too long a time for any country. If you look at the last 24 hours, one week would appear to be a day. The kind of things we see…I remember when the US Navy SEALs had taken Osama Bin Laden from Abbottabad (Pakistan),then can’t we do the same?’ Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday.
He added, ‘This used to be just an imagination, a desire, a frustration, a disappointment. But today this is possible’.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley: This used to be just an imagination, a desire, a frustration, a disappointment. But today this is possible. https://t.co/apXQREMfIh
— ANI (@ANI) February 27, 2019
Jaitley’s remarks come amidst the escalating tension between India and Pakistan. A day after the Indian air strike on a terror camp in Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir saw heightened military activity on Wednesday, with Pakistani jets violating the Indian air space and dropping some bombs in Rajouri sector after which one of their fighters was shot down.
Indian Air Force on Tuesday carried out unprecedented Air Strikes across LoC destroying Balakot JeM Terror Camp. As per reports, 12 Mirage 2000 jets took part in the operation that dropped 1000 kgs of Bomb across LoC in early hours of the Tuesday, Feb 26 completely destroying the Terror Camps.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also lauded Nitin Gadkari and said, “We used to see rivers as a way to generate market and tourism but Gadkari has proved me wrong”.
Earlier on February 21, Nitin Gadkari in a stern warning to Pakistan threatened that India would ‘choke’ the water supply to Pakistan in light of the Pulwama Terror attack. The latest warning from the Central Government comes on the backdrop of the February 14 Pulwama Terror Attack that claimed lives of 40 CRPF Personnel.
Earlier, A Day after the Pulwama Terror Attack, the high-powered Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had revoked the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status granted to Pakistan.
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