External Affairs Minister and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said no Pakistani soldier or citizen died in the air strike carried out by the Indian Air Force across the border in response to the Pulwama terror attack in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing women party workers here, she \nstressed on a 2014-like full majority BJP-led government this time also,\n saying former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not do \neverything which he wanted to because he was heading a coalition \nadministration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The IAF had struck a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist \ntraining camp in Pakistan\u2019s Balakot area on February 26, in response to \nthe February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were \nkilled.Swaraj said the air strike was carried out in self-defence.\u201cWhen \nwe carried out air strike across the border after the Pulwama terror \nattack, we had told the international community that we took that step \nin self-defence only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe had told the international community \nthat the armed forces were instructed not to harm any Pakistani citizen \nor its soldier during the strike,\u201d she said.\u201cThe Army was told to target\n only the terror camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, which had taken the \nresponsibility for the Pulwama attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd, our Army did the \nsame without harming any Pakistani citizen or soldier,\u201d said Swaraj.The \nforeign minister said the entire international community had supported \nIndia over the air strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi,\n she said he has emerged as a top international leader who sets the \nagenda for the world.Referring to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, Swaraj \nsaid the then Congress-led UPA government had failed to take along other\n countries to isolate <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pakistan in the world despite the fact \nthat 40 foreign citizens belonging to 14 countries had also died in the \nstrike.The external affairs minister said Pakistan had raised objection \nto the invitation extended to India for a meet of the Organisation of \nIslamic Cooperation in Abu Dhabi last month, but the host county UAE \nsnubbed Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stressing on a full majority government led by\n the BJP this time also, Swaraj said Vajpayee could not do all the \nthings he wanted because he was heading a coalition government .Swaraj, \nwho was a minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet also, said coalition \ngovernments face pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou must be wondering how Modiji \ncould do so many things in these five years. He could do it because he \nwas heading a full majority government.\u201cIf he was running a coalition \ngovernment, then he might have been in some pressure,\u201d she said.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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