Indian home minister accuses Pakistan of 'destabilising India'
Rajnath Singh, while addressing inspectors and directors general of police in India, said on Saturday that he was confident that these groups would never be able to succeed in India and said that majority of the Indian Muslims will not side with them.
“Though ISIS is born in Syria and Iraq, it is a fact that the Indian subcontinent is not outside its radar, especially as some Indian youth are also getting attracted towards it.”
He especially referred to al Qaeda’s announcement in September of a new outfit for the Indian subcontinent called Qaeda-ul-Jihadi, with intentions of specifically targeting Gujarat, Assam, Bihar and Bangladesh, and identified this too as a major challenge.
Singh went on to claim that the Pakistan Navy was involved in the hijacking of a naval frigate, which, he added, was a ‘worrying development’ for the entire region, especially against the backdrop of the rise of ISIS.
“The South Asia wing of al Qaeda has claimed it had tried to hijack a Pakistani naval frigate with the intention of attacking Indian and US naval vessels. Some people of the Pakistani Navy were also involved in this. But I am confident our police and security forces will be able to strike back at any such attempts,” Singh said.
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Both India and Pakistan have been acting against each others, niether we like you nor you like us. Whatever your non-state and state actor are doing in Pakistan, our non-state and state actors are responding to it.
@Raj - USA: what USA Navy is doing in Arabian sea?
@wb: try addressing u life first, before making sweeping comments like arvind,Pappu qnd mamta. Apart from them+ you, rest of india is quite sure about "How to tackle pak". So, save your propaganda for election.
The west should put some sanctions on these countries who support terrorism...
Pak is a headache for the whole world..
BJP must mature up and stop making such statements.
Dealing with Pakistan must be through bullets and not through talks. Especially Public speeches against Pakistan are nonsensical.
We Indians are naive enough to be impressed by stupid speeches. At lease I'm not and most intelligent Indians are not.
Show us how serious you are in dealing with Pakistan with action and not through words. We care less for words
@Rana You are like "Mummy mummy dekho wo mujhe tang kar raha hai" ...Grow up...and also get a life.
India has 600 million people without potable water and toilets. When will this abysmal poverty be addressed? There is more poverty in India than Africa.
Rajnath Singh making himself a fool by giving such statement, as a Home Minister he should draw action plan to checkmate the enemy.This kind of rattling is meaningless.
They are fed up of their cheap news papers, so they come here to read news.
@Sunil: Bring it on!
Is he not saying the same that Pakistan's own Defense Minister and few other ministers of Pakistan have already said?
Read these earlier news items in ET: http://tribune.com.pk/story/760271/brazen-assault-pns-dockyard-attackers-had-inside-support/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/760030/navy-investigating-possible-connivance-of-officials-in-saturdays-attack-defence-minister/
Reuters News has reported: "Al Qaeda's South Asia wing has claimed responsibility for hijacking a Pakistani naval ship and trying to use it to fire rockets at U.S. vessels in the Arabian Sea, in the first major assault by the newly created group."
Here is the link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/17/us-southasia-attacks-idUSKBN0HC0YS20140917
@rana:
Congratulations, Sir, you finally stepped out of your cave dwelling into the Internet age. Just like Pakistani readers inundate Indian sites with their outlandish, frivolous and, often, abusive comments, Indian readers write their comments on Pakistan sites. The difference, however, is conspicuous because Indian readers post logical and hard-to-refute arguments while Pakistanis turn to abuses and cheap threats because they cannot argue in an intellectual manner. It is absolutely wrong to say how many Pakistanis would be allowed to write on Indian sites (it's bad English to say "write in Indian news groups"!). So, if you are uncomfortable at listening to the bitter truth, then you are advised to go back under the stone or into the dark cave.
@Sunil: War? Hahaha, thats why we have NUCLEAR WEAPONS no? Only mad nations would consider war under these circumstances.
....and wen are they releasing the film..........hope it has Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor.
why indians are being allowed to write in PAk news groups ? they certainly try to portray pak as a problem for everything. how many pakistani would be allowed to write in indian news groups ?
Instead of blaming Pakistan, India should take care of the many armed groups that are fighting India, including in Assam and Mizolands.
He is in fact stating the truth, if things do not change there will be a war.
Tell me something new.