Desist from sending terrorists to India: Gadkari to Pak

January 04, 2016 23:23

Pakistan would be given a befitting reply if it does not stop sending terrorists across, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said today adding that India's initiative for friendship should not be construed as its weakness.

Addressing a public function, Gadkari said in an apparent reference to the Pathankot terror strike that Pakistan was waging a "proxy" war against India. "You know yesterday's incident. Terrorists are coming to India continuously. Pakistan knows very well that it cannot defeat us in open war. Pakistan wants to provoke and bring India on the brink of war by killing innocent people and by making Hindus fight against Muslims with the help of terrorists. They are doing a proxy war.

"We want to forge friendship with Pakistan. But this does not mean that we are weak. If Pakistan will carry out such incidents in India with the help of terror then we will give them a befitting reply. ('Hum eet ka jawab patthar se denge')," he said.

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