Pointing finger: ‘Neighbour trying to destabilise India’

India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh warned that Indian forces will not keep an account of bullets fired in retaliation

India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday pointed fingers at Pakistan for a recent attack in Kashmir that left eight security officials dead, warning that Indian forces will not keep an account of bullets fired in retaliation. “We won’t fire first but if Pakistan fires then we won’t keep an account of our bullets,” Singh said while addressing a gathering of BJP workers in Ranchi, the Indian Express reported. He went on to add that ‘the neighbouring country was trying to destabilise India’. “Yesterday, two Pakistani terrorists ambushed the CRPF convoy,” Singh said referring to the attack on a bus carrying security officials in Pampore that left eight officials dead.  He added that the Pakistan’s attitude was not helpful. Singh went on to claim that, in the past 18 months, New Delhi has been able to control infiltration to a large extent.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2016.